{"id":616466,"date":"2026-09-30T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616466\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:22:10","slug":"taupo-to-host-new-zealands-first-official-golden-retriever-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616466\/","title":{"rendered":"Taup\u014d to host New Zealand\u2019s first official golden retriever gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">The event will start at the Great Lake Centre Taup\u014d with a pooch parade about 9.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">The afternoon programme will continue at the Taup\u014d Dog Training Club grounds at Centennial Drive, with stalls, food trucks, raffles, and plenty of golden retriever chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">The event is also raising funds for Hospice Taup\u014d, with all profits donated to the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Gulbransen said 190 golden retrievers and owners had registered for the event, but she believes it could attract about 500 people and dogs to town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Destination Great Lake Taup\u014d general manager Patrick Dault said he couldn\u2019t wait to see the streets full of wagging tails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEvents like this are gold \u2014 excuse the pun!<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTaup\u014d has always been a place where people \u2013 and their dogs \u2013 are welcomed, so hosting the country\u2019s first Golden Retriever Gathering feels right at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve heard that golden retriever meets have become a bit of a global thing, so congratulations to Lynda for making it happen right here in Taup\u014d.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event will start at the Great Lake Centre Taup\u014d with a pooch parade about 9.30am. The afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11730,138,28247,1888,57982,23834,12022,5962,11692,117,111,139,69,5908,295159,303666,10809,1852,165,61,2951,2963],"class_list":["post-616466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-afternoon","tag-business","tag-descend","tag-first","tag-gathering","tag-golden","tag-host","tag-humans","tag-nearly","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-official","tag-retriever","tag-retrievers","tag-sunday","tag-taup","tag-their","tag-to","tag-town","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616466","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=616466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}