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March 14 & 15 2020 at The Square Palmerston North<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year more than 30,000 people attended the Hilux New Zealand Rural Games in Palmerston North over the course of a weekend. They were there in their thousands to watch people of all ages trying out different things from tree climbing to digger driving to gumboot or cow-pat throwing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They are also there to watch the experts sheer sheep, see the sheep dog trials and be enthralled with the cut-throat timber sports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a free event that is now in it’s 6th year that has been growing from strength to strength each year to the point where for country folk, it is a staunch grass roots item on the annual calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dogs and horses also feature largely in these rural games and have done since the games inception and the organiser & founder, Steve Hollander says we are to expect even more this year. “Dogs and horses are a huge part of many successful farms and families’..we are ‘thrilled that we’ve had sponsors come on board to help (animal welfare) charities raise their public profile during the games’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n