HAPPY NEW YEAR: The sun has well and truly set now on 2017 and this blazing sky shot as a horse grazes in a paddock at Ngatapa (taken by Karen Bevitt) almost a year ago, seemed a good way to usher out the old year and welcome in the new.
FOCUS on the Land would like to wish rural people everywhere throughout the region the very best for 2018. May you all have a prosperous and safe year.
Thanks to the many who have contributed to rural pages in the past year and we hope for the same sort of
Tony Robinson resigns, no byelection as less than a year left in the term.