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‘Now we can get cracking’

Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon says he can now focus on forming a strong and stable government — and he will be doing it negotiating with Winston Peters. “Now we can get cracking,” Luxon told reporters at Parliament an hour after the...

Old season and new season lambs

There was a total of 674 sheep sent for sale yesterday at the Matawhero saleyards and the yarding consisted mainly of old season prime lambs and new season store lambs. The consignment of 382 store, freshly weaned, black face lambs from Kainga Farm...

‘Farming for the Future’ seminar

The NZ Farm Environment Trust in association with Beef + Lamb New Zealand will stage a ‘Farming for the Future’ seminar’ in Gisborne on Monday, entitled ‘A celebration of sustainability.’ It will be an evening of conversation and...

Woman in court for posting sex pics online

Discovering sexually explicit pictures of his previous girlfriend on her partner’s phone angered a woman so much that she posted them to several online sites. The offending continued even after police had charged her for it, Gisborne District...

Whatever we do, let’s not be like Wellington

Jack Marshall There’s a saying that holds true: if it ain’t measured, it ain’t managed. Those who follow national news may have noticed that Wellington has recently imposed level-one water restrictions despite the torrential downpours. What?...

Our public services ‘not fit for purpose’

Much of our public service structure is not fit for purpose and this compounds a wider malaise of low productivity in our economy, Rob Campbell writes in a recent opinion piece in the Post. The former chair of Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ — who has an...

Meng Foon’s seawall: just did as he pleased

Re: Meng Foon’s seawall. Bevan, while you may be right about the need for less red tape (October 31 letter), the fact of the matter is Meng Foon thought he could just do as he pleased and get away with it. While you say this is not much different...

Serious claims, while ignoring the real issues

Re: Base solutions on facts, ignore agendas — November 1 column and comment trail. The theme of Clive’s column is not about erosion, its prevention or the introduction of enhanced logging disciplines, which are the real issues. Instead, he...

Making their mark with baking

October was Women’s Insitute Awareness month and for Federation members of the Poverty Bay branch, it was all about baking. They gave out home-made biscuits to those attending the Barleycorn concert at the Salvation Army Citadel on the Day for...

A blooming weekend extravaganza

Roses and irises of all colours will fill the Farmers Air Showgrounds Event Centre this weekend for the annual Poverty Bay Horticultural Society Summer Show. Society president Wendy Davies took a moment this week to enjoy the heady fragrance of the...

Hospice Tairāwhiti calls for 'fairer' funding

'This year, we are forecasting an operational deficit of around $700,000.'

Seymour discusses Treaty principles

Many people are worried about what the next Government’s approach will be to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the possibility of a divisive referendum on the principles of the Treaty. On the campaign trail, Christopher Luxon said National did not support...

‘If you wish to help Hamas, pressure Israel’

by Ran Yaakoby Ambassador of Israel to New Zealand Hamas’s unprecedented massacre of Israelis on October 7th may have elated its supporters in Gaza and abroad, and it certainly delighted this terrorist organisation’s sponsors in Iran, but it...

Racist, one-sided policy

With dozens of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli attack on Jabalia refugee camp, our political leaders must act. PSNA has written to caretaker PM Chris Hipkins and incoming PM Christopher Luxon (yesterday) urging the following steps be taken...

Team to monitor offshore quakes along 'locked' part of Hikurangi Subduction Zone

An international team of scientists are setting off on a voyage to paint a clearer picture of our earthquake and tsunami risk from New Zealand’s largest and most active fault, the Hikurangi Subduction Zone. New Zealand is dotted with earthquake...

Heat alerts in MetService kete for third year running

From the beginning of the month yesterday and through summer, MetService will be issuing heat alerts across New Zealand. This is the third year that MetService has trialled alerts to help New Zealanders plan and prepare for extreme heat, alongside...

Heartening start to season for growers

The district’s croppers have been hard at work with their summer planting programmes and encouraged by the results so far, while grape and kiwifruit growers have also taken heart from the way their crops are shaping up. The recent rain slowed up...

Judge dubs man a 'real danger to women'

"In the end, I consider you a real danger to women.” That’s what Judge Warren Cathcart told a man with a history of domestic violence whose latest offence was to beat up his partner after going to her house one night uninvited, waking her up...