Greenwash NZ – Alarming “bee colony collapse” in the ‘Greenest’ country on earth. Updated Sept 2015

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…

Who’d Be A Teen In Nelson?

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…

Migrant Tales – Returning Kiwi Felt Like A Pom in NZ

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…

Thrillseekers Adventure Ltd Fined For Bungy Fall

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…