Fifty of Waikato's finest (mention)

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3016539a6579,00.html

28 August 2004 

MARY ANN GILL reports on a celebration of the region's best.

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Centre general manager Barry Quayle has confirmed [All Black legend Colin] Meads and the Hillcrest Tavern will be in the line-up, along with Mt Pirongia, the Balloons over Waikato event, Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien and Hobbiton (the Matamata-based set used in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies).

Those six are fairly predictable, though the many people who objected to the Hamilton City Council's decision to place a statue of O'Brien in the main street may disagree.

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