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Education Minister Anne Tolley has thanked principals, teachers, board members, students and Ministry of Education staff in Canterbury as they work to get schools up and running. The majority of schools will be open on Monday, but a few have structural problems.
Nathan Guy has visited Canterbury firefighters to thank them for their efforts and inspect recovery work. The Fire Service have moved from their initial involvement with assisting medical incidents and freeing trapped people to dealing with structural incidents.
Civil Defence Director, John Hamilton says public services are recovering in the Canterbury region, despite a series of aftershocks that accelerated this morning after a relative lull yesterday.
The Government is working on a suite of streamlined measures to help ensure a swift recovery from the canterbury earthquake. Gerry Brownlee has been working with insurers, the Earthquake Commission, banks and local government to ensure a swift process of paying out claims to people who have suffered damage.
A number of support schemes are assisting Canterbury individuals, employers and community providers following the earthquake.
Tertiary providers in Canterbury have been significantly impacted by the Canterbury Earthquake. At this stage CPIT and Lincoln University will reopen on Monday 13 September, Te Wananga o Aotearoa will reopen at the Moorhouse Avenue campus on Monday 13 September, and Canterbury University will reopen to students on Wednesday 15 September and will resume teaching on Monday 20 September.
If you are planning to build a new home this summer, then NOW is the time to act before the GST increase! Many of McRaeway Homes customers have already chosen to utilise our existing new home building prices before the increased GST comes into effect on 1 October 2010.
We are proud to announce that Secured Signing was the winner of the 2010 Eco Insulation Excellence in Design, Research & Development Award at the 2010 Westpac ENS Business Excellence Awards.
Most schools in Canterbury will remain closed until Monday. School buildings need to be checked to insure there are structurally sound and safe, then Boards of Trustees need to make health and safety decisions, clean up, and prepare for lessons.
John Key, Prime Minister of NZ, congratulated incumbent Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard for winning the right to govern.
A wage subsidy is being made available to support employees of small businesses seriously disrupted by the earthquake in Canterbury.
Update 26 from the Civil Defence regarding the Christchurch earthquake.
Update 23 from the Civil Defence regarding the Christchurch earthquake. Information for Christchurch residents and those wishing to assist. All schools will remain closed until at least Wednesday morning.
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Magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Christchurch at 0435 hours, 4 September 2010. Several aftershocks of between magnitude 3.9 and 5.2 have occurred and more aftershocks are expected. The likelihood of aftershocks of up to around magnitude 6 will remain for the next week.
A fact sheet outlining the main options being considered to make child support fairer.
A discussion document proposing a number of changes to make the child support scheme fairer has been released for public consultation.
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The inaugural New Zealand Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Challenge 2010 launched on 31st August with the keyword Quadracentifiable as the main target phrase.