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Hogmanay at Waipu on New Zealand's North Island

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For the first time in six decades I have spent New Year in the Southern Hemisphere. Strange feeling to wake up on December 31 to sunshine and temperatures around 25 degs. C, first footing ‘neath the Southern Cross.  Still, it was something I just had to put up with – all in the name of my daughter’s wedding and judging at the Waipu Highland Games on New Zealand’s North Island….

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NZ Silver Chanter

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Silver Chanter MSR 1 Alasdair MacKenzie 2 Angus Hawke 3 William Rowe 4 Mike Redmond Judges: E MacCrimmon, B Switalla, I Blakeley Former Winners Clasp MSR 1 Alasdair MacKenzie 2 Jamie Hawke 3 Greg Wilson Judges: N Foster, E MacCrimmon, P Mair A-Grade Piob 1 Greg Wilson 2 Stuart Easton 3 Liam Kernaghan 4 Marion Horsburgh March 1 Greg Wilson 2 Stuart Easton 3 Liam Kernaghan 4 Jamie Hawke S&R…

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