Numerous media outlets are reporting on two Air New Zealand engine failure emergencies that happened on Sunday 8 May 2011. Fortunately both planes landed safely, although passengers were very shaken by their experience. The first was an Air NZ Boing 737-300, Flight NZ-417 from Auckland to Wellington with 101 people on board source The plane…
Sept 2015 update, sent in by a reader: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/08/burts-bees-neonics-and-poisoning-our-food All fruit and vegetable samples (except nectarine and tomato) and 90% of honey samples were detected positive for at least one neonicotinoid; 72% of fruits, 45% of vegetables and 50% of honey samples contained at least two different neonicotinoids in one sample, with imidacloprid having the…
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…
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