The annual Hastings Blossom Festival Parade was held in Hastings on
Saturday, with a number of local communities and sponsored groups
making their own floats to showcase down the city's main streets.
Photographer Duncan Brown caught all the colour and festivities.
Image 1 of 13: Classic Hits radio station releases its soap machine and bubble machine onto the crowd that gathered for the Blossom Parade on Queen St, Hastings.
Augusta Taranaki Mountainairs beat Taylor Hawks 90-84 in a nail-biting extra-time National Basketball League victory at the Pettigrew.Green Arena in Napier. Photos by Warren Buckland.
Hawke's Bay Today reporter Michell Hageman also kind of known loosely as Mighty Mitch goes er toe to toe against Impact Pro Wrestling fly weight championship contender ACJ.