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This morning Southwell School was proud to host Rt. Hon. Prime Minister John Key to help raise awareness for the upcoming Buddy Day, on 13th November 2015.

ESNZ EVENTING CANTERBURY FEI SOUTH ISLAND ONE DAY EVENTING CHAMPIONSHIPS Saturday, November 7, & Sunday, November 8 SI National Equestrian Centre, McLeans Island GORMACK’S TROPHY HAUL CONTINUES

The Westpac Massey Fin-Ed Centre has released updated Retirement Expenditure Guidelines to help New Zealanders plan for their retirement.

Although not all New Zealanders are rugby fans it is hard not to be proud of our wonderful All Blacks and their brilliant win at Twickenham in the early hours (NZ time) of 1 November. I had to watch despite my exams for my Health and Safety diploma ...

Rain was delivered to the West Coast of the South Island today as a front travelled north, with showers spreading east of the Alps. Elsewhere it was a mostly fine day, although it turned cloudy in the southwest of the North Island.

It is a pleasure to be back in Palmerston North, the city of my birth. It is true to say that my family left Palmy reasonably soon thereafter, but there is no truth to the rumour that as a 16 month old I went to my mother to request a transfer!

“Our education professionals work hard every day for our children, and they deserve to be publicly recognised and encouraged for their contribution,” Jono Naylor said.

P-users are delaying vulnerable people from getting access to social housing and have forced Housing New Zealand to demolish 14 contaminated homes in three years, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett says.

Minister of Revenue Todd McClay has welcomed a decision by the Cook Islands government to implement the 'Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters Agreement' (AEOI) and says the Cooks Islands and New Zealand will play their part ...

Stuff reports: New Zealand wasn’t very clever when it came to how infrastructure at new housing developments was funded, he said. At present, developers would have to pay all the costs for services inside a new subdivision, with the costs passed on to home buyers. “It gets added on to the price of the house […]

News from Football Federation Australia FFA CEO David Gallop tonight released a statement about the future of the Wellington Phoenix. He said that he and FFA chairman Frank Lowy met Wellington Phoenix chairman Rob Morrison in Sydney today to discuss the issue of Phoenix’s length of licence. “Rob underlined the Phoenix’s financial stability, a matter […]

Two islands in Abel Tasman National Park will become specially protected areas to protect breeding colonies of New Zealand fur seals, Conservation Minister Maggie Barry has announced. The decision means public access to Tonga and Pinnacle Islands ...

One of my all-time favourite movies is that 1997 Australian great – The Castle – where an “ordinary family” stands up to big money and bureaucracy, and wins.

IITP CEO Paul Matthews has achieved what others couldn’t manage: bringing together most of New Zealand’s IT-focused organisations under a single umbrella. Next year 11 other bodies will join IITP at the ITx 2016 conference in Wellington. According to a press release, the three-day event, will be held at the TSB Arena and Shed 6 complex on […]

In 2009, when the first tentative steps were being taken in the Teina Pora appeal, I was a relative media virgin. My investigative career had taught me to be wary of news media and journalists. I’d been told they were scoundrels who’d stop at nothing to trick a headline out of the naive and witless, and there is every chance I was both of those things.
Six years later, following the quashing of Teina’s convictions for rape and murder, I hold quite a different view, not only of the journalists we dealt with... Читать дальше...

Last week, I introduced the concept of elasticity of supply with respect to price as a useful measure of housing market dynamics. Supply elasticities measure how responsive builders are to an increase in demand. In other words, when people turn up wanting dwellings, how quickly do the tradies start building more?

Radio NZ reports: Lilian Turner, 95, who faced deportation to Britain, where she had not lived since after the end of World War II, has been granted residence. The widow’s case comes as the Law Society and immigration lawyers say they are seeing an increasingly tough stance on deportations by Immigration New Zealand. But the […]

Press Release – Unite Union A prisoner uprising is currently underway in one of the Australian detention camps located on Christmas Island. The camp population is a mix of asylum seekers and New Zealanders being forcibly removed from Australia following a term in prison there.Support Christmas Island detainees – protest outside Australian Consultate 1pm Wednesday […]

Press Release – Accor Hotels and Resorts AccorHotels is pleased to announce a new-build 60-room apartment hotel The Sebel Wellington Lower Hutt is set to commence construction in January. The new 4.5 star apartment-style hotel will overlook the Hutt River on the eastern shores of Wellington Harbour, a short distance from Wellington International Airport. Estimated […]

BusinessDesk report by Tina Morrison Wellington businessmen John and Michael Chow, the property developers and brothel owners, plan to list some assets on the NZAX market by taking over shell company RIS Group. “Michael and I are committed to growing our property investments in NZ at a fast pace and to do that we need […]

Press Release – Vodafone Vodafone’s $22million network upgrade paves the way for Wellington and Christchurch to become New Zealand’s first ‘gigacities’ Today Vodafone announced Christchurch and Wellington are to receive gigabit speeds at accessible prices as a result of a world-leading technology upgrade to Vodafone’s ultra-fast broadband network; in partnership with Huawei. The $22million network […]

Press Release – Trigger Marketing A new feature film titled One Thousand Ropes began principal photography in Wellington today. One Thousand Ropes is the second feature from internationally acclaimed Wellington writer and director Tusi Tamasese, whose first feature was The Orator. A powerful character drama, One Thousand Ropes is an emotional story about Maea a […]

Open letter to Kapiti and Coast District Council from White Ribbon Campaign Trust Dear KCDC Mayor and Councillors White Ribbon is a campaign that focuses on ending men’s violence towards women. It originated in Canada as a men’s response to the murder of 14 women and became a worldwide campaign and was brought to NZ […]

Press Release – Accor Hotels and Resorts 9 November, 2015: AccorHotels is pleased to announce a new-build 60-room apartment hotel The Sebel Wellington Lower Hutt is set to commence construction in January 2016. The new 4.5 star apartment-style hotel will overlook the Hutt River on the …New River Front Hotel The Sebel Announced for Wellington […]

Press Release – Ruby Red Trust Good weather and 300+ riders are hoped for by the organisers of the Ruby Red Trust annual trail bike ride on Sunday 22 November at Orongaronga Station. Attracting riders from the lower North Island, this annual fundraiser event is run by the Kapi Mana Motorcycle Club – who having […]