Hamilton Press Releases

Three New Zealand Super Rugby teams have signed up to use STATSports’ World Rugby-approved sports monitoring technology. The Blues, Hurricanes and Chiefs will benefit from the most accurate GPS tracking technology currently available through STATSports’ APEX system.

Global arts initiative Bring Your Own Beamer will run for the fourth time in Hamilton in conjunction with this year’s Spark International Festival of Music, Media, Arts and Design.

Hamilton City Council is calling on local groups of dancers, singers and musicians, to perform on a global stage – as part of the Chengdu International Sister Cities Youth Music Festival in China. The festival, from 26 July to 1 August, aims to promote cultural and art exchanges between Chengdu and its sister cities. Hamilton became a sister city with Chengdu in 2015 after signing a memorandum of understanding in 2014.

Eastside Refrigeration, the most trusted HVAC contractors in Hamilton, offers comprehensive commercial air-conditioning design and installation services. These solutions give clients assurance of a comfortable and energy-efficient facility.

In his new book SMART MARKETING, international marketing strategist and media commentator Wayne Attwell suggests that many of the 80 percent of all business ventures that fail within the first 10 years, fail because they don’t clearly understand what their customers actually want.

Gold Standard Whey, available at SportsFuel Supplements, continues to be recognised as a leading supplement in the world of professional bodybuilding.

On Friday the 5th October there will be a protest in Hamilton against welfare reforms meeting at 10am at Hinemoa Park. Alternatively there is a Family Playgroup and picnic at 11am. Both protests are peaceful.

Hamilton company Viva Apps are well on their way to global recognition with their exciting new smartphone application after winning the Dragons Den competition at Waikato University.

Claudelands in Hamilton passed with flying colours as it was put to the test last weekend when thousands of Twihards, zombies, Dr Who and anime fans converged ready to meet the stars of the biggest pulp culture event in New Zealand – the Armageddon Expo.

Help is at hand for charities and community groups looking for fundraising ideas this year – staff at two Domino’s Pizza stores in Hamilton are ready and waiting to help out with weekly Doughraisers.

Staff at Domino’s Pizza Rototuna have their work cut out for them this week as they attempt to turn out more than 3000 pizzas in just seven days.

Hamilton, 3 July 2011. St John’s College Hockey is learning that home is where the heart is when it comes to their school hockey development. Up until 2010, the school had struggled to field a hockey team to compete competitively in the Waikato secondary schools’ competition, and the solution came from a surprise quarter.

Minister of Health, Tony Ryall says patients covering New Plymouth to Gisborne to Hamilton will have a more convenient service that’s closer to home with the new Positron Emission and Computed Tomography Centre (PET-CT) in Hamilton.

Three Hamilton men were each fined $2500 today in the Taupo District Court for hunting offences committed at the time of the fatal shooting of Rosemary Ives at a DOC campground near Turangi last October.

15 February marks the opening of “healex”, the newest natural health practice in Hillcrest, Hamilton, offering naturopathic consultations, herbal medicine, Bach Flower consultations and natural healing. Naturopathic treatment is intended to assist and stimulate the body’s own ability to heal itself. Naturopathy is both a system of natural medicine, and a way of life. Educating the client is a big part of the healing process.

The Hamilton Live Music Trust and Hamilton City Live will be throwing a free gig at the Band Rotunda in Ferrybank Park at 2pm on Saturday 15th January 2011.

All Whites and Phoenix players will be visiting fans in Garden Place at 9.45am, Saturday 10 July, before a 2pm pre-session match against Brisbane Roar at Waikato Stadium.

Hamilton Zoo’s white rhino calf will keep his nickname ‘Bunty’.

Smokefreerockquest 2010 national final will be held at Hamilton’s Founders Theatre on September 11.

V8 Supercars Australia is to run Hamilton’s ITM400 from next year, with continued sponsorship from the Council.