{"id":479874,"date":"2026-06-16T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479874\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:47:10","slug":"two-hawkes-bay-events-postponed-as-first-of-the-june-rain-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479874\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Hawke\u2019s Bay events postponed as first of the June rain arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Postponed are the planned sinking of decommissioned trawler the Twofold Bay to create an artificial reef and diving zone, and the Ngati Kahungunu ki Tamaki nui-a-Rua Matariki Light Show in Dannevirke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The marine forecast resulted in the trawler-sinking being deferred for 24 hours and rescheduled from 1pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The Matariki light show is postponed for a week, until next week (June 23-24).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Still going ahead is the civic opening of the newest sports field in Napier, at the new Napier Pirates clubrooms at Park Island North, scheduled for Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">In Napier and Hastings, light rain continued early this afternoon as many prepared to watch the telecast of the All Whites\u2019 first match at the football World Cup in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter, based in Napier, with 53 years in full-time journalism, now in his 40th consecutive year covering news events and issues in Hawke\u2019s Bay, including the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postponed are the planned sinking of decommissioned trawler the Twofold Bay to create an artificial reef and diving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28823,806,1561,127,130973,3685,5346,1888,305,1976,13419,191975,4486,1304,111,43,139,69,1118,22399,42911,241431,6560,29191,544,6100,223,1961,14578,1237],"class_list":["post-479874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-arrives","tag-as","tag-bay","tag-despite","tag-driest","tag-events","tag-expected","tag-first","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-june","tag-junes","tag-month","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-places","tag-postponed","tag-quencher","tag-rain","tag-soil","tag-some","tag-still","tag-the","tag-this","tag-tuesday","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}