Duty roster: 30 Dec 2023 – 2 Jan 2024
For Saturday, New Years’ Eve, New Year’s Day and Tuesday, December 30, 31, January 1, and 2DOCTORS:Please call the free national helpline on 0800...
Wairarapa joins the Age-Friendly Network
Wairarapa leaders have welcomed the region’s inclusion in the World Health Organisation’s Age-Friendly Cities and Communities programme.Carterton, Masterton, and South Wairarapa districts have...
Three SW medical clinics to join forces
In a move designed to improve access to healthcare for South Wairarapa’s ageing population, three general practices in the district will be joining forces...
Author donates profits to the Women’s Refuge
A Carterton-based author who is donating proceeds from her debut novel to Women’s Refuge has sold 70 copies in the first week.Julia Capper’s novel...
A very covid Christmas…?
A total of 45 new cases of covid-19 were reported in Wairarapa in the past week , Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand data...
![Tyrone Lister before his Movember growth [left] and after getting his mo-grow on [right].](https://dw35i5ezvh1dd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Tyrone_no_mo-324x160.jpg "Tyrone’s a Mo-bro")
Tyrone’s a Mo-bro
Tyrone Lister’s moustache is an in-your-face reminder that men’s health is important.The Year 12 student at Mākoura College has been involved in the Movember...
Pop-up station with substance
The New Zealand Drug Foundation will run a free, legal, and discreet pop-up drug-checking station in Masterton today.
Smokefree backtrack ‘wrong-foots health sector ‘
A local health professional is joining more than 100 groups nationwide in urging the government to rethink repealing the Smokefree 2025 goal and is...
What’s going on here then?
Every week until Christmas, Midweek will visit one of the groups listed on our events page. This week, Julia Mahony visits the Masterton Masters...
Toxic algae alert issued
Greater Wellington Regional Council is urging people to avoid the Waipoua River where it passes under Colombo Rd, due to elevated levels of...
