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Blair Vining farewelled with three-hour celebration

17:25 pm on 16 October 2019

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More than a thousand people packed into Stadium Southland on Wednesday to hear Blair Vining deliver his own eulogy.

The cancer care advocate, who died last Friday, was farewelled in Invercargill by a huge crowd, with many people wearing their favourite rugby jerseys at his request.

RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown was at the memorial service and filed this report.