Новости за 13.03.2016

The Variety Trillian Bash starts in Levin on March 12, but it’s already handed over a cheque at Bulls School.

Putting clients at the centre of everything it does is starting to pay off for global engineering consultant Aurecon who has secured two wins in the Financial Review (FR) Client Choice Awards.

Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell welcomes the release of the Waitangi Tribunal’s report on the reform of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.

University of Waikato cello student Sam Lucas has won the 2016 National Concerto Competition, held recently in Christchurch. Mr Lucas performed Bloch's Schelomo with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Waitangi Tribunal releases its report on the Crown’s proposed reform of Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993

The battle of New Zealand’s top tennis players ended with lengthy matches in the MinterEllisonRuddWatts Wellington Tennis Open at the Renouf Tennis Centre as both men’s and women’s finals lasted three sets in front on big crowds. Rubin Statham ...

Avalanche City will tour throughout New Zealand this May and June on the ‘Little Fire’ tour, with support from singer/songwriter Ciaran McMeeken . The run will celebrate Avalanche City ’s latest single of the same name, which has been quickly ...

The ICC World Twenty20 Championship is yet another reason Kiwis are flocking to India with research from Cheapflights.co.nz revealing a 378 per cent increase in flight searches over the last three months.*

News from CofC The Wellington Chamber of Commerce is surprised that city councillors want to add more than $4 million of extra spending into the 2016/17 annual plan just 11 months after the 10-year plan was put together. Chief Executive John Milford says he expected some bids to be submitted for the annual plan, but […]

Ara Taiohi Celebrates an Inclusive Commonwealth Ara Taiohi, peak body for youth development in New Zealand, is celebrating an inclusive and youth centred Commonwealth on Commonwealth Day 2016 today. “The Commonwealth are doing incredible work to ...

Peter Caughey took a hard-earned win at the Hastings round of the Suzuki SuperBoat championships, to haul in current points leader Glen Head.

An Auckland business entrepreneur has launched the first of its kind online florist website which is benefitting New Zealand florists and the public wanting to buy flowers.

A rubber rabble will take to the waters this Saturday as 200 blue rubber ducks compete in the second annual Great Fiordland Whio Race on the Upukerora River, Te Anau.

The Institute of Directors, has released updated guidance with Work Safe New Zealand to support directors ahead of legislation changes next month.

Helen Kelly was only days away from stepping down from her post at president of the Council of Trade Unions when she was interviewed on The Nation in October. But she went into the appearance with the intention of launching one last campaign.
Pretty much everything that has unfolded since was signalled in that interview with Lisa Owen: Kelly had exhausted other options in dealing with the symptoms of her lung cancer (including morphine "which is a horrible drug") and wanted access to medical cannabis. Читать дальше...

No Pride in Prisons is condemning the Department of Corrections following another ‘non-accidental’ death at Mount Eden Prison. Corrections announced that a prisoner died last Monday due to an ‘ apparent suicide ’.

“With candidates including existing Ward Council and Local Board members, a former All Black, a Grey Power Branch President, and a strong young voice from Auckland’s Indian community, the City Vision and Roskill Community Voice candidates selected ...

Arm in arm with comrades that include Destiny Rescue's former Media Director and Burn Agent Jerram Watts who was featured on TVNZ’s current affairs programme Sunday last night, a growing number of Kiwi youth are challenging the notion of being an ...

Wellington Chamber of Commerce is surprised that city councillors want to add more than $4 million of extra spending into the 2016/17 annual plan just 11 months after the 10-year plan was put together.

Stuff reports: Labour leader Andrew Little has called for banks to be “stiff armed” into not forcing dairy farmers off their land, warning that could see more farms fall into overseas ownership. His call came amid calculations by the Reserve Bank that in a worst case scenario up to 15 per cent of the $40 billion in dairy […]

Family First NZ has obtained a legal opinion for schools that says they are not required under the law to have to allow transgender students access to shared toilets, showers and changing rooms, or allow transgender students to participate in sports ...

The female Orca whale at the centre of a refloating attempt off the south Taranaki coast near Patea has died overnight. Department of Conservation staff and local iwi are at the beach where there will be karakia before samples are taken for testing ...

March 14 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar advanced as currencies linked to commodities came back into favour.

The NZDUSD opens at 0.6720 (mid-rate) this morning. The NZDUSD rallied strongly on Friday as both equity markets and commodity prices rallied following the latest round of stimulus announced by the ECB on Thursday.

The New Zealand flag was adopted in 1869. The flag was formally authorised by Governor Bowen, by Gazette of 23 October 1869, for use by Government ships. From 1869 the flag was increasingly flown on shore and by the public. It was accepted as the national ...