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New Zealands meat export to China to be resumed after document failure
New Zealand meat exports that have been held up on Chinese wharves because of a name change on the export documents will be allowed to enter the Chinese market from next week, the New Zealand government announced Thursday.Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy said the Chinese authorities had agreed to begin releasing consignments under the name of the New Zealand Food Safety ...
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Restoration group questions ChristChurch Cathedral vote numbers
video A month-long submission process by the Anglican Church shows the majority of survey respondents want a new, contemporary ChristChurch Cathedral to replace the quake-damaged one - but not everyone is convinced by the results. More than 3,700 people had their say on proposed design options to the cathedral, and more than half of them opted for a contemporary rebuild. But the Restore ...
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TradeMe learns lessons from bogus bidding case
TradeMe says it has learnt a lot about bogus bidding after the conviction of a car dealer who was manipulating auctions on an "industrial scale". Auckland car dealer The Auto Co (Millennium) Ltd has been fined $42,000 for what TradeMe said was its biggest ever episode of fake bidding. The car dealership pleaded guilty to 13 charges under the Fair Trading Act and has already had ...
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Van crashes through roof in Christchurch
Residents of a house in Lyttelton in Christchurch had a lucky escape this afternoon when a contractor's van crashed through their roof. The van started rolling backwards down Ticehurst Terrace and was airborne before crashing. The van is now embedded into the kitchen of the house, with the impact sending debris flying onto the property next door. While there were occupants in the ...
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Farmy Army leader honoured for quake aid
Prime Minister John Key helps out the Farmy Army volunteers, at Linwood College, following the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in March 2011. Photo / File The driving force behind Christchurch's 'Farmy Army' says providing help and hot meals in the earthquake-struck city was a humbling experience. John Hartnell was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit today for ...
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Affordable homes on the way for Bay
Tauranga community housing trust chairwoman Chris Johnstone talks about the budget announcement that state homes may be able to be run by private providers. Photo / APN A $1.7 million Government grant will provide more affordable housing for some of Tauranga's most vulnerable people. The grant has been made to Tauranga Community Housing Trust and will be used to build new units ...
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New DNA test can detect Bluff oyster-killing infection
A new DNA test has been developed to detect low levels of the Bluff oyster-killer bonamia. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) and molecular diagnostic company dnature have developed a DNA test that is more sensitive, and can detect lower levels of infection, than using a microscope. Bonamia, a microscopic disease of oysters, is not harmful to humans or animals, but kills ...
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Company fined after 120k of fake bidding
If you list an item on an online auction site with a reserve of one dollar, you have to be prepared to sell it for a dollar.That's the advice of the Commerce Commission after an Auckland car company was fined $42,000 for placing 7500 fake bids on its own items to raise the price.The Auto Co was banned from auction site Trade Me in July 2012 after the company noticed employees had set up ...
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Key visits Christchurch construction sites
Prime Minister John Key visited three major construction sites in Christchurch today which are being hailed as evidence that the post-disaster city has turned from demolition to construction. Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee took his leader on a whistle-stop tour of three buildings, which will be worth around $100 million once completed. The construction sites visited today were a ...
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Teen arrested over alleged air rifle threat
Armed police have arrested a teenager who allegedly planned to threaten a Lower Hutt resident with an air rifle. The armed offenders squad was called to a property in Wainuiomata about 3.30pm today. Police had been told a 16-year-old boy planned to take what was believed to be a .22 calibre rifle and threaten a local Wainuiomata resident. Officers cordoned off a property ...
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Whangarei Mayor not seeking re-election
Whangarei Mayor Morris Cutforth said he will not stand for re-election at the October election choosing to focus on his health instead. He told Whangarei District Council yesterday that he and wife Jillian have decided their health needs to be their priority in the coming years. "Although it saddens us to relinquish positions we have grown to enjoy and cherish, we are accepting ...
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Clever Kiwis vie for export awards
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 4:55 pm Press Release: Employers And Manufacturers Association Media statement Thursday, May 23, 2013Clever Kiwis vie for export awardsNew Zealand designers and suppliers of jewellery, yacht masts and aeroplane safety checks are doing such good business on distant shores; they are among finalists in the Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Auckland Awards 2013.Entries in ...
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QEII Site Update - No Asbestos Risk At Track
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One week to feedback on draft Unitary Plan
Aucklanders have one week to feedback on the draft Auckland Unitary Plan and Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse is urging people to make sure they have had their say."We are undertaking the largest planning process in New Zealand's history, creating a rulebook that will guide Auckland and how it grows over the next 30 years. "I never expected anything less than robust debate and ...
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Dominion Finance boss jailed
Dominion Finance boss Paul Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months imprisonment. Justice Graham Lang delivered the sentence at Auckland High Court late this afternoon. Cropp, who turned 50 yesterday, ...
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NZ meat cleared across Chinese wharves ministry chided for mistake
New Zealand meat has been cleared to move across Chinese wharves as soon as next week though the administrative logjam has been sheeted home to the Ministry for Primary Industries. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy announced the breakthrough while chiding his department for submitting paperwork in a format that hadn't yet been approved by China's General Administration of ...
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Kiwi at 8-month low after Chinese manufacturing slows Bernanke says watch data
The New Zealand dollar fell to an eight-month low after figures indicated Chinese manufacturing shrank this month and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told politicians quantitative easing could be tapered off if the world's biggest economy keeps getting better. The kiwi fell as low as 80.15 US cents, trading at 80.26 cents at 5pm in Wellington from 80.69 cents at 8am, tumbling from ...
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Dealer fined $42000 over fake Trade Me bids
Source: ONE News Auckland car dealer The Auto Co (Millennium) Ltd has been fined $42,000 for what TradeMe says is the biggest ever episode of fake bidding on the site. The car dealership pleaded guilty to 13 charges under the Fair Trading Act and has already had to pay more than $122,000 in compensation to affected customers. TradeMe says the company made more than 7000 fake bids on up to ...
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Man sentenced for indecent assault after giving 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis
File photo / Sarah Ivey A 43-year-old man who gave a 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis and put his hand up her skirt when she passed out avoided being sent to jail today. The judge hit out against legal highs during sentencing, they were filling up her courtroom and causing widespread social problems. Long-time cannabis and synthetic user Kirk Daniel Rutledge, 42, had smoked the ...
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Doctor avoids conviction after slapping wife
File photo / NZ Herald A doctor who has admitted slapping his wife three times in the face has escaped conviction. The doctor, in his 60s, appeared in Auckland District Court today where he was granted interim name suppression to protect the identity of his family. The doctor's lawyer Ron Mansfield told the court how his client was dedicated to working in his community and had been under ...
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Man walks off in stolen boots
Photo / Thinkstock A Greymouth fisherman claims he was so drunk that he walked out of The Warehouse without paying for the socks and boots he had donned in the store. In the Greymouth District Court, Caden John Dash, 18, was fined $700 and ordered to pay $50 reparation after he admitted the shoplifting charge, plus other charges of unlawfully firing an air rifle near a dwelling and ...
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Drug-ring head waits on leave to appeal
File Photo / NZ Herald The Supreme Court has reserved its ruling on whether to grant a Far North man - dubbed a drug kingpin for ruling over a multimillion-dollar dealing network - leave to appeal his conviction for manufacturing and supplying methamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis oil and ecstasy. Maxwell John Beckham, 66, from Mangonui, was found guilty of 24 charges after a six-week ...
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Dominion Finance chief executive jailed
Former Dominion Finance chief executive Paul William Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months in prison. Cropp, 50, was found guilty last month on four charges of theft by a person in a special relationship. The Serious Fraud Office, which brought the proceedings against Cropp, argued he knowingly and deliberately breached the requirements of Dominion's debenture trust deed or that ...
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Resolution of New Zealand meat exports to China
Resolution of New Zealand meat exports to China A resolution has been agreed which should see authorities clearing New Zealand meat exports to China from next week, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced."Chinese authorities have agreed they will begin releasing consignments under the name of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority."Officials are working around the ...
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More children getting help to see
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 3:25 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Tony RyallMinister of Health23 May 2013More children getting help to seeMore young New Zealanders in need of glasses to correct their vision have received free spectacles through a Government-funded subsidy."More than 28,000 children aged 15 years or under had their eyes tested and were given glasses if ...
Auckland Feature Story
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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