This event is open to all Scottish members over 18 and involves the consumption of a pie and beer before ascending up the tip track to the radar station, where another can is consumed before heading to the finish line at the wind turbine. Alternatively, you can choose the soft option and just do the run. The event is wide open this year with the main contenders - Rohan Biggs and Grant McLean - opting to save themselves for Masterton the next day. Entries are now open.
In this reflective session, Sarah Hopkinson, Head of Learning at Te Papa, explores the vital role museums play within Aotearoa’s wider education ecosystem and the unique ways they nurture creativity, collaboration, and community.
Petone with the Swindale Shield on their home ground, following today’s win over Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Grant Wall. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Petone are the 2026 Swindale Shield champions, winning the first-round title for the 16th time with next week’s final round to spare with a 43-17 win over Paremata-Plimmerton this afternoon. Petone and...
Victoria University’s Classics Museum examines the complex afterlives of antiquities through two remarkable objects—a Roman portrait head now subject to repatriation after being identified as illicitly excavated, and a richly carved child’s sarcophagus later revealed to be a modern forgery.
