Shirley Walker says she's amazed at the support from the people of the Tararua to this year's Daffodil Day fundraiser for the Cancer Society.

Many admired it, everyone wanted it, but most didn't have the money to buy Andrew Sterling's 1952 XK120 Jaguar on display at Dannevirke Services and Citizens Club on Saturday.

He has had goats eat the hymn sheets and poultry in the pulpit, but Dannevirke's Canon Tim Delaney is still keen for animals to flock to his special critters blessing on Sunday.

Aucklander George Mann is desperately seeking a girlfriend from 57 years ago.

Challenges, traditional and rapping, raised the roof of the Dannevirke High School hall even before the inter-house kapa haka competition began last week.

A staggering scandal is how Horizons councillor John Barrow describes the failure to present councillors with a vital report in 2009.