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Otago have come out on top in a 12 try NPC extravaganza - prevailing 46-41 over Wellington in Porirua

17 August 2025

The game had 10 different try scorers, with Otago flanker Lucas Casey and Wellington centre Matt Proctor collecting doubles.

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16 Aug: The Southland Stags have scored 29 unanswered second half points to stun Manawatu 29-22 in their NPC rugby contest in Invercargill after trailing 22-nil at halftime

14 Aug: A couple's been charged with defrauding a person over two years - with bogus cancer treatment bills to the tune of more than one-million-dollars

14 Aug: Central Otago's troubled Shotover wastewater treatment plant is going to be checked on less regularly

13 Aug: Christian Lio-Willie returns to the Otago side for their NPC match away to Wellington this weekend

13 Aug: A coroner has found failure to wear seatbelts contributed to the deaths of four men in a Canterbury crash

12 Aug: Another two men have been charged with murder in relation to a 20-year-old's death after a brawl in Hamilton last month

12 Aug: Queenstown's benefiting from another influx of winter tourists

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