Category Archives: King Island Courier

THE Cataraqui shipwreck memorial and grave site on King Island is the first shipwreck site to include a land- based element to be entered on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.

IT’S March, and the footy season clock and grant deed dates are starting to click down.

THE 30th Hydro Imperial 20 was a triumph. Australia’s only coast to coast foot race commenced in Naracoopa on the east coast and after hitting the west coast at Currie Harbour, the runners, walkers, individuals and teams need
to climb back up heartbreak hill to cross the finish line in Main Street Currie.

THE Bonnets and Boats event and exhibition was held at Glen Derwent, New Norfolk during International Women’s Day week March 5 to 9.

MURCHISON MLC Ruth Forrest spent a week on King Island.

IN a jam-packed King Island weekend of sport, another winner was Edith Rapana who won the King Island Golf and Bowling Club’s Handicapped Singles Bowling Championship. Edith played Michael Waythe and the score was 25 to 20.

THE 51st Melbourne to King Island yacht race has been run and won and once again crews thanked islanders for their hospitality.

TUESDAY’S King Island Show was a great success, despite every type of weather possible being thrown at showgoers – except maybe snow.

KING Island has welcomed a new player in the fraught Bass Strait shipping game.

THE golf marketing campaign with SEN, the Melbourne-based sports radio network, continued this week with SEN’s Drive Home show anchors, Andrew Gaze and Andy Maher, broadcasting their afternoon show from the King Island Golf and Bowling Club.