Thinking about emigrating to Nelson, looking for a lifestyle change – somewhere great to raise the kids? Nelson is often regarded as being a genteel sort of place. It is one of those sort of towns that the arts and crafts set, retired people and the ‘middle classes’ make a bee-line for when emigrating to…
A trip to McDonalds is considered to be an valid educational opportunity for 5-7 year old Wilford school children in the Wellington suburb of Petone. Whilst there is merit in examining the process involved in food production and discussing the effects of an unhealthy diet, the raison d’être for this excursion fails miserably as soon…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from places around the net. This tale is taken from an army social forum and the author, an expat Kiwi, speaks about how uncomfortable he felt when he returned to NZ after a long absence. He was…
It’s almost a year to the day since Australian tourist Kirsty Moulder was seriously injured when she “slipped” out of a bungy harness at the old ferry bridge over the Waiau River near Hanmer Springs. Today the company she jumped with Thrillseekers Adventure Ltd. were fined $40,000, in addition to the $18,000 they’d already paid…
There were sighs of relief all round when it was confirmed this morning that the North Harbour Stadium was undamaged by yesterday’s violent tornado. The stadium, which is just metres from the Albany shopping mall “escaped unscathed” said the stadium’s chief exec. Craig Goodall. North Harbour is to host the France v. Japan, Australia v.…
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