Rural Women Get a New Clothing Look
Rural women can now step put in style thanks to a new range of workwear designed specifically for women.
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Taupo Museum Setting New Boundaries
Taupo Museum is setting some new boundaries with two impressive exhibitions. The exhibitions involve fine art shows from Tuwharetoa artists, specialist artists talks and installations: Nga Hauwahine e Whitu (our seven sisters) and Nga Mata Kaka (beacons of light). The two shows feature some of the highest achievers in contemporary Maori art.
Helping Dunedin Retailers Make the Most of Rugby World Cup
Information is being sent to dunedin city retailers from the Dunedin City Council and Otago Chamber of Commerce to help them make the most of the arrival of Rugby World Cup fans.
Telecom and SKY Agreement
Telecom and SKY have a new agreement which will enable Telecom to sell all of SKY’s television services to Telecom customers.
Smoke Free Waikato Playgrounds
The South Waikato District Counci has posted signs promoting smoke free playgrounds.
BusinessNZ Welcomes More Choice in ACC
BusinessNZ welcomes the proposals outlined in the ACC discussion document, providing choice and competition.
Wellington Matariki Celebrations
The appearance of the star cluster Matariki (Pleiades) is the signal for the Maori New Year to begin. Carter Observatory is celebrating Matariki with activities throughout June.
Kiwi Sporting Icons Team Up to Help Fight Deadly Illness
Two of New Zealand’s most revered sporting icons, Irene van Dyk and Dame Susan Devoy, have teamed up in a campaign to help battle the biggest killer of children under five in the third world – pneumonia.
Japanese Tourism Delegation
The most influential Japanese tourism industry delegation to ever visit New Zealand is in Queenstown to visit key tourism providers and meet with New Zealand’s Prime Minister, and Minister of Tourism, John Key.
Auckland Council Disability Leadership Group
The membership of the Auckland Council’s Disability Leadership Group has been announced by the mayor, Len Brown. The group’s purpose is to represent interests of disability communities in relation to council strategies, policies, plans, and bylaws.
Stormwater360 launches LiveRoof® Green Roof System in New Zealand
Stormwater360, New Zealand’s leading innovative stormwater management company, has announced the company’s agreement with LiveRoof®, LLC, the top horticultural experts in the green roof industry in the USA to distribute its hybrid LiveRoof® pregrown Green Roof System in New Zealand and Australia.
Cancer diagnosis moves closer to home for Midland patients
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.
NZ Tourism Fails to Deliver
We refer to ourselves as some of the most travelled people in the world. If that is in fact the case why are we struggling to understand the culture and expectations of our key growth markets and as a result delivering a level of visitor experience that doesn’t even meet their expectations, leave alone exceeding it?
Chorus selected as cornerstone of ultra-fast broadband initiative
Telecom’s division Chorus has been selected to complete 70% of the ultra-fast broadband (UFB) network by Crown Fibre Holdings including 30 hospitals within the first 12 months.
TrustPower Selects DataCol Metering Management System
New Zealand Energy retailer TrustPower, has announced the purchase from Kiwi company DataCol, of a meter reading and data management system called SevenX for the management of reading approximately 500,000 electricity meters.
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Budget Changes to Tax System
Budget 2011 changes to the tax system will ensure fairer treatment of employee benefits, new rules for mixed-use assets, and a new approach to livestock valuation elections for farmers.
Budget Changes to Student Loans Scheme
Budget 2011 changes to the Student Loans Scheme will encourage personal responsibility and get better value for taxpayers.
How Budget Changes Affect KiwiSaver
Examples of how Budget 2011 changes to KiwiSaver affect New Zealanders.
How Budget Changes Affect Working For Families
Examples of how Budget 2011 changes to Working for Families will affect families.