Entries for January 2009

Lumbering steam engines and century old haymaking machinery seem a million miles away from the cut and thrust of the Mad Butcher’s Auckland business world, and the nearest thing to rugby league on offer is a set of goal posts for hay bale tossing.

Yet Peter Leitch is bringing his wife Janice and half the extended family to Southland again this January for the Edendale Vintage Machinery Crank up Day.

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Venture Southland will be producing the annual Shakespeare in the Park production, in association with the Shakespeare in the Park Charitable Trust.

For 2009 the selected work is A Midsummer Night's Dream which will be directed by professional Auckland-based director, Anna Marbrook.

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