Новости за 29.09.2016

On Saturday 27 September, ten North Wellington residents were awarded the North Wellington Volunteer Service Award at an Awards Dinner at the Johnsonville Community Centre.

Vacant Crown land in Auckland will be turned into a 51-home development to provide transitional housing for families before they move into permanent accommodation, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett has announced.

E nga mana, e nga reo, e te iwi o te motu, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Introduction – Community Housing Sector Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

Tangible results are starting to show from the Māori Housing Network effort launched just under 12 months ago, says Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell who will be speaking at the National Māori Housing Conference in Tauranga this afternoon.

A $4 million investment is on track to benefit cancer patients receiving radiation therapy at Christchurch Hospital.

We're back into severe weather warning mode on the Coromandel. The warning from Metservice is for localised heavy rain falls until midday at least.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has expressed his appreciation for the thorough work of the independent investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014, saying it is an important step towards accountability.

Stuff reports: A new “anti-separatism” campaign fronted by former National Party leader Don Brash has been launched to pressure politicians into opposing preferential treatment of Maori. The campaign group is running a number of newspaper ads calling for an end to separatism and race-based laws – and will consider donating to any parties willing to “commit strongly […]

Plunket has today (Friday 30 September) launched an ambitious 1000-day campaign to raise awareness of the vital role that the charity plays in the first 1000 days of a child’s life.

Sept. 29 (BusinessDesk) - Simon Mackenzie, chief executive of Auckland lines company Vector, says there has been early interest from both buyers and sellers in the peer-to-peer energy trading platform that it’s trialling in New Zealand from December with Perth ...

Sept. 29 (BusinessDesk) - Pumpkin Patch's annual loss widened by 71 percent as the indebted children and babywear retailer's revenue sank with store closures and as its international wholesale business struggled.

Police have taken a 14-year-old male into custody this afternoon following an alleged assault and carjacking on a woman in New Lynn.

Sept. 30 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street dropped, with financial and health care stocks leading the way.

Stuff reports: Students should return to paying interest on their loans in an attempt to make tertiary education more accessible for all, a report to the Government suggests. The Productivity Commission, an independent Crown entity, is recommending interest be charged on new student loans, as part of a proposed overhaul of the tertiary education sector. However, […]

After two terms, yesterday was Len Brown’s final meeting as Mayor of an amalgamated Auckland and so I think it’s appropriate to look back at what he and Auckland have achieved over the last six years.

Press Release – Family PLanning Association Representatives and parliamentary leaders from Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and New Zealand met in Wellington this week (28-29 September) for a workshop on prioritising sexual and reproductive …Pacific parliamentary leaders strengthen commitments to the SDGs Representatives and parliamentary leaders from […]

Press Release – NIWA ENSO (El Nio Southern Oscillation) neutral conditions are still present in the tropical Pacific Ocean as a whole, although some indicators are currently in the weak La Nia category. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central equatorial … NIWA Outlook: October – December 2016 Overview ENSO (El Niño – Southern Oscillation) […]

Sept. 29 (BusinessDesk) - Intueri Education Group plans to merge six training schools in New Zealand into a single entity in an amalgamation that it says will simplify its relationship with the Tertiary Education Commission and the NZ Qualifications ...

Sept. 29 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares rose as global markets were encouraged by reports of a deal to ease the glut of crude oil. Orion Health Group, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corp and Auckland International Airport led the index.

Police are investigating a report on Thursday 29th September 2016 at about 8.10pm of a powerful green laser being pointed into the cockpit of a commercial aircraft enroute to Wellington Airport.

Candidates say postal voting has done its dash. But voters also need to take responsibility. CHRIS VISSER reports

Mayoral candidates say the city is not taking full tourism advantage of its role as capital.

14 Hours Homeless is a nationwide campaign to aid the end of homelessness in NZ

As traffic is picked to increase in Wellington, what would Wellington mayoral candidates do?