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Waitangi Day Dinner, New Zealand Society (EVENTS)
The New Zealand Society Ki te taumata, Aotearoa ki Ingarangi Waitangi Day Dinner Friday 6th February 7pm Venue to be... more>
Special screening of the seminal film: Sleeping Dogs (EVENTS)
Seminar 1 Tuesday 2 September 2008 with The New Zealand Society Special screening of the seminal film Sleeping Dogs (1977,... more>
Charity Art Auction (EVENTS)
The New Zealand Society Ki te taumata, Aotearoa ki Ingarangi Charity Art Auction for NZ Conservation Project – New Zealand... more>
Shebang Theatre Company presents.... (ARTS)
The Wild Colonial Season A Season of Performances Celebrating New Zealand’s Literary Colonial Culture Award Winning New... more>
The New Zealand Social Work Forum (MEETINGS)
The New Zealand Social Work Forum meets on the second Saturday of each month in the Ngati Ranana rooms on the fourth floor... more>
Traditional Maori weaponry (ARTS)
If you want to learn more about the use of traditional Maori weaponry, training sessions are every Sunday afternoon. For... more>
NZ Wine Tasting (EVENTS)
The New Zealand Society Ki te taumata, Aotearoa ki Ingarangi NZ Wine Tasting Thursday 18th September 6.30pm Penthouse, New... more>
Winter Drinks & Christmas Fair (EVENTS)
The New Zealand Society Ki te taumata, Aotearoa ki Ingarangi Winter Drinks & Christmas Fair Thursday 20th November... more>
London New Zealand Rugby Club (SPORT)
London New Zealand Rugby Club is recruiting new players for the forthcoming season. Their First XV is playing in London... more>
Waitangi Day Church Service & Girdlers Reception (EVENTS)
The New Zealand Society Ki te taumata, Aotearoa ki Ingarangi Waitangi Day Church Service & Girdlers Reception Thursday... more>
 

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CADBURY LAY-OFFS ANOTHER BLOW FOR OTAGO WORKFORCE (21/8/2008)
REDUNDANCIES: The Otago workforce took another big hit today when Cadbury Schweppes announced 145 staff faced redundancy at its Dunedin factory. The company is restructuring production at three plants in Australia and New Zealand with the loss of a total of 330 jobs. The company will invest $51m in the Dunedin factory, which will produce more boxes of assortments of chocolates. The cuts, which will start being enforced in the new year, follow an announcement earlier in the year by... more>
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lifestyle
PHARMAC DEFENDS FUNDING OF FLAVOURED CONDOMS (21/8/2008)
HEALTH: Taxpayer funding of a wider range of condoms, including flavoured and ribbed varieties, saves money, increases choice and promotes better sexual health practices, says Pharmac. The drug funding agency has defended its decision, announced yesterday , that condom subsidies would now include strawberry, vanilla, chocolate and banana condoms, as well as large, extra large, ribbed and supersensitive varieties. The move has come under fire from a number of parties, who say the money would... more>
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arts
NZ FESTIVAL FILM HAS HAPPY ENDING DESPITE NEAR TRAGEDY (20/8/2008)
FILM: A low budget New Zealand feature film that almost didn’t make the silver screen thanks to a dastardly conman, has had a happy ending and will premiere at the Feel Good Film Festival in Los Angeles this week. Christchurch-born Emily Corcoran will put on her "posh frock" and step onto the red carpet on Hollywood Boulevard on Friday to showcase the movie she toiled over for the last five years, she told NZPA. "It’s been a long old road." The movie, Sisterhood, features... more>
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entertainment
HUNTER'S NEW ROCK GETS TONGUES WAGGING (12/8/2008)
HUNTER: New Zealand supermodel Rachel Hunter was still being coy about the big sparkler on her ring finger when she visited rural Waikato today, but her ice hockey playing partner apparently gave the game away. Speculation has been rife about their engagement since Hunter and Jarret Stoll, who at 26 is 13 years her junior, arrived in Auckland to visit her mother Janeen. Hunter and Stoll, a Canadian who plays for the Los Angeles Kings, visited Hautapu Primary School near Cambridge today to... more>
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opinion
HALF OF VOTERS BELIEVE PETERS SHOULD BE SACKED - POLL (18/8/2008)
PETERS: Nearly half of voters want New Zealand First leader Winston Peters sacked from his position as foreign affairs and racing minister, a poll shows. It comes as Mr Peters prepares to face Parliament’s privileges committee tonight over allegations he broke Parliament’s rules by failing to declare a $100,000 donation from expatriate billionaire Owen Glenn towards his legal fees. The Fairfax poll showed 48 percent of voters believed Prime Minister Helen Clark should stand Mr... more>
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travel
NEW TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE PART OF WIDER VIRGIN BLUE PLANS:REPORT (12/8/2008)
AVIATION: Pacific Blue’s announcement of new trans-Tasman services is seen as part of a plan by parent company Virgin Blue to create an Asia-Pacific network. Yesterday Pacific Blue said it would start flying nine return trips a week from Auckland to Sydney, starting in October. The airline said it would be getting another 180-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft in early September to fly the new route, bringing its total fleet number to nine. The new services added nearly 169,000 extra seats... more>
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migration
MIGRATION GAIN PICKS UP, BUT LOSS TO AUSTRALIA HIGHER (21/8/2008)
POPULATION: The size of New Zealand’s population gain through migration is showing some signs of recovery, although the loss of people to Australia permanently or long term (PLT) continues to rise. Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) data published today showed a PLT migration gain of 700 people last month, up from 200 in July, with PLT arrivals up by more than 800 which was partly offset by almost 400 more PLT departures. Net PLT migration had increased in three of the past five months... more>
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business news
XERO SIGNS UP 2000TH PAYING CUSTOMER (21/8/2008)
BUSINESS: Xero says it has signed up the 2000th paying customer for its online accounting software. It had taken 18 months from start-up to gain its first 1000 customers, and 4-1/2 months for the next 1000, Xero said today. Chief executive Rod Drury said customer growth had continued to be strong during the traditionally quiet period for accounting systems changeover. "While still early days, we are seeing the inevitable transition of small businesses moving to online software, and the... more>
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tourism
TOURISM OPERATORS DELIGHTED WITH NATIONAL PARTY COMMITMENT (20/8/2008)
TOURISM: Inbound tourism operators are delighted with the National Party’s commitment, announced by Shadow Finance Minister Bill English at their industry conference in Queenstown today, to listen to industry concerns about the Inland Revenue Department’s decision not to honour formal, written GST agreements it signed with the industry in 2001 and instead seek $30 million of back taxes. Speaking to the conference, Mr English said that while the IRD had to be independent from the... more>
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property
HOUSING MARKET LIKELY TO DECLINE FURTHER - ASB SURVEY (19/8/2008)
PRICES: A record proportion of people expect house prices to fall in the next 12 months, giving some confidence to house hunters, according to ASB’s quarterly survey. A net 55 percent of the 600 people surveyed in the three months ended July expected house prices to fall, the weakest reading by a long way since the survey began 12 years ago, ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said. A net 34 percent in the previous survey expected a fall in house prices. In addition, those expecting... more>
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food & wine
RESEARCHERS HOPE TO KEEP WHITEBAIT FROM FRITTERING AWAY (14/8/2008)
WHITEBAIT: As the whitebait season begins scientists at the University of Canterbury have embarked on a four-year, $1.1 million study to find the key to producing more of the tiny fish. The researchers have already discovered whitebait are very particular about their spawning spots, opting for dense riverbank vegetation and high humidity -- conditions which are increasingly difficult to find on many West Coast and Canterbury waterways. "We knew they laid their eggs among bank vegetation in... more>
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environment
KIWI GREENS IN LONDON LAUNCH ELECTION CAMPAIGN WITH EXCLUSIVE SCREENING OF CLIMATE FILM (21/8/2008)
GREENS: The London branch of the New Zealand Green Party is launching its election campaign on Thursday the 28th of August. The fundraising event will introduce expatriate New Zealanders to Green Party candidates Lizzie Gillett and James Shaw and features a sneak preview of eagerly awaited climate change film The Age of Stupid, which candidate Lizzie Gillett produced. The film is scheduled for release in cinemas around the world in winter 2008. The New Zealand general election is scheduled to... more>
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recruitment
UNION SAYS STATE WORKERS NOT OVERPAID (7/8/2008)
STATE WORKERS: The union representing public servants is taking issue with a study that found public servants earn more than private sector workers. The study by Waikato University’s Management School found that the average pay differential between the public and private sectors is between 17 percent and 21 percent. Professor John Gibson said public sector unions should not be pushing for pay increases before the election because they are already being paid more. "That alleged gap... more>
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sport
PINT-SIZED CHEONG MAKES HISTORY ON DRAB DAY (21/8/2008)
OLYMPICS: Wet weather put the brakes on New Zealand’s BMX medal hopefuls but it didn’t stop a victorious Auckland teenager raining blows on her Olympic taekwondo opponent this morning. Robin Cheong made history when she won her opening contest in the women’s 57kg class, the first time a New Zealander has tasted any success in the ancient martial art at the Games. It went to the wire, too, with Korean-born Cheong taken to a tiebreaking sudden death fourth round before... more>
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cricket
ICC DELEGATION DUE IN NZ TO DISCUSS PAKISTAN TOUR (13/8/2008)
PAKISTAN: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) will tomorrow host a high powered delegation sent here to persuade the national team to contest the Champions Trophy tournament in Pakistan next month. The International Cricket Council (ICC) delegation will be led by ICC general manager cricket David Richardson and includes Tim May, chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations, and Pakistan coach and former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson. The same delegation... more>
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rugby
HENRY LAUDS ALL BLACKS COURAGE AND FITNESS (18/8/2008)
TRI-NATIONS: All Black coach Graham Henry lauded his players’ courage and fitness after two late tries sealed a 19-0 Tri-Nations rugby victory over South Africa in Cape Town yesterday. Despite New Zealand’s dominance in an intense, physical battle, the result had remained in the balance until 12 minutes from the end, with just centre Conrad Smith’s early try separating the teams. But a fine individual effort from first five-eighth Dan Carter, followed up by a gift to... more>
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rugby league
STRONG DEFENCE KEEPS WARRIORS IN PLAYOFF HUNT (18/8/2008)
WARRIORS: Sharks coach Ricky Stuart labelled it a poor display of rugby league on an unpleasant night. But for the New Zealand Warriors, their 18-4 win over the Sharks at Mt Smart Stadium last night was everything they wanted as they target a place in the National Rugby League (NRL) playoff series with three matches to go. The win highlighted one key reason why the Warriors now have a chance of making the top eight - staunch defence in the face of trouble, something which wasn’t... more>
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super 14
NZ TEAMS WANT SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE RUGBY REVAMP: REPORT (5/8/2008)
RUGBY: Leading New Zealand provincial teams are reportedly discussing a radical revamp of Southern Hemisphere rugby. North Harbour, Wellington, Canterbury, Auckland, Waikato, Otago, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki and Southland rugby representatives have been meeting in recent weeks, The Dominion Post newspaper reported today. It was unclear if the New Zealand Rugby Union had been kept informed but the report said Australian Rugby Union chief executive John O’Neill had been briefed about... more>
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air new zealand cup
TASMAN LEAVE OFF-FIELD DRAMAS BEHIND THEM FOR MIGHTY WIN (18/8/2008)
TASMAN: Tasman picked themselves off the floor to secure a rousing Air NZ Cup rugby win over Taranaki today. Tasman won the contest 33-23 in Nelson to temporarily erase thoughts of their impending demise. The New Zealand Rugby Union last week shoulder-tapped Tasman and Northland for exclusion from next year’s revamped competition, giving the Tasman side plenty of motivation heading into today’s match. They made it count, too, overhauling a 10-20 deficit early in the second... more>
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left-field
HUNT ON FOR BEST LOO (21/8/2008)
The hunt is on again for the best loo in the country. Keep New Zealand Beautiful is seeking nominations for the best looking public toilet and is encouraging councils around the country to enter their toilets. Entrants must submit a 300-word story about their favourite dunny together with photos of the interior and exterior. Detailed answers to a questionnaire -- that include a description of the decor, information on the location and hours of service and nature of the hand-drying... more>
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