Comments on: Taihape http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/2010/03/19/taihape/ Research Fellow's Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:47:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: In Taihape - Lilly Woodpecker http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/2010/03/19/taihape/comment-page-1/#comment-111 In Taihape - Lilly Woodpecker Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:21:42 +0000 http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/?p=89#comment-111 [...] Boot Throwographer did his research and consulted the organizers of the Gumboot Day. See more: Tully Golden Gumboot Festival and Taihape. [...] [...] Boot Throwographer did his research and consulted the organizers of the Gumboot Day. See more: Tully Golden Gumboot Festival and Taihape. [...]

]]> By: Boot Throwographer http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/2010/03/19/taihape/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Boot Throwographer Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:18:51 +0000 http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/?p=89#comment-4 Thank you, gumboot throwing went quite good (in personal series we threw out of the competition; my best was 45,76 m) and in team competition we won the first prize, $40 per thrower. Then about Skellerup. It really has distant connection to Denmark but somehow it is as Kiwi in NZ as Nokia is Finnish in Finland: “Beginnings in 1910 George Skellerup, a Danish Australian opened his first retail store in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1910, selling tyres and rubber goods for the dairy industry. By 1939, three rubber factories, a wholesale distribution company and a chain of retail branches had been set-up. These operations were consolidated in 1948, when Skellerup Industries Limited listed as a public company. An International Company With its head office in Christchurch, Skellerup is the principal company of Skellerup Holdings, listed on the NZX Stock Exchange and now employs over 800 people in New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, USA and China.” (Source: http://www.skellerup.co.nz/3.html). Thank you, gumboot throwing went quite good (in personal series we threw out of the competition; my best was 45,76 m) and in team competition we won the first prize, $40 per thrower.

Then about Skellerup. It really has distant connection to Denmark but somehow it is as Kiwi in NZ as Nokia is Finnish in Finland:

“Beginnings in 1910

George Skellerup, a Danish Australian opened his first retail store in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1910, selling tyres and rubber goods for the dairy industry.

By 1939, three rubber factories, a wholesale distribution company and a chain of retail branches had been set-up. These operations were consolidated in 1948, when Skellerup Industries Limited listed as a public company.

An International Company

With its head office in Christchurch, Skellerup is the principal company of Skellerup Holdings, listed on the NZX Stock Exchange and now employs over 800 people in New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, USA and China.”

(Source: http://www.skellerup.co.nz/3.html).

]]> By: Saapasnainen http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/2010/03/19/taihape/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Saapasnainen Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:30:18 +0000 http://bootthrowing.com/blog/rosenoll/?p=89#comment-3 I wish you good luck for the competition! By the way, Skellerup brings Denmark to my mind. Does it have some connection? Could you find out? I wish you good luck for the competition! By the way, Skellerup brings Denmark to my mind. Does it have some connection? Could you find out?

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