School Holiday Fun at the Village!
Discover the ways of the old days in demonstrations and hands-on activities with costumed Visitor Hosts.
Butter Making: Fridays and Sundays 11am-3pm
Coal range baking: Wednesdays 10am
Candle-making: Thursdays 11am
Crafts & outdoor games: everyday
Feed the chooks: everyday at 10:45
Admission: adult $14, senior/student $12, child $6, child under 5 free.
No bookings required. Candle making $6 per person. Limited availability.
On Friday 14 July butter making will be at 11am only, rather than drop in 11am-3pm
. Open Tues-Sun 10am-4pm. CLOSED Mondays. Homestead Café open 7 days.
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
If you have any unused FlyBuys points
If you dont have enough points to redeem to buy anything - you can donate them to various charities on the flybuys website before 31 Dec.
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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61.4% Summer
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37% Winter
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1.7% Other - I'll share below
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