Giant sausage gifted to town

A rather large sausage was gifted to a town in Southland, New Zealand, on Friday.
Tuatapere, which claims to be the country's "sausage capital", was the winner of a ZM Radio contest that asked its listeners which small town should get a monument.
Announcer Carl Fletcher said the decision was made to head down to the deep south and unveil a "sausage-on-a-fork" to celebrate the famous famous Tuatapere Sausages. The 3m-long sausage traveled from Auckland and arrived in Tuatapere on Thursday evening.
During the unveiling of the giant sausage, several flavors of sausages were cooked and given out free to the Tuatapere public. Aaron Challis, who owns the local supermarket, said the giant sausage was exciting for the community. "It's really great to be here, the locals can't believe it. Any sort of positive happenings for small towns is important."