Mark your calendars now. The next Waipu Highland Games will be on 31 December and not 1 January as they have been for a while (151 years to be precise).
It has been getting hard to attract volunteer helpers and committee members on New Year’s Day (ahem, the morning after the night before), and vendors have to pay increased penal rates to workers on 1 January. So the games organisers are trying a new approach.