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Thank you, Aotearoa.
You helped The Press and the Rod Donald Trust buy Mt Herbert/Te Ahu Pātiki the highest peak in Christchurch.
But you can still help.
The generosity of Kiwis has now secured the land's future as a public conservation park.
Further donations will help the … View moreThank you, Aotearoa.
You helped The Press and the Rod Donald Trust buy Mt Herbert/Te Ahu Pātiki the highest peak in Christchurch.
But you can still help.
The generosity of Kiwis has now secured the land's future as a public conservation park.
Further donations will help the trust restore the land to its former forested glory.
Come and see photographs taken by our talented children for the competition. They are ready to view now in
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Paint it pink with Resene for the Breast Cancer Foundation NZ!
Buy any Resene testpot starting with P, I, N, K during May and we’ll donate $1 to Breast Cancer Foundation NZ.
Offer applies to all Resene 60ml testpots with colour names starting with P, I, N, K purchased at the normal retail … View morePaint it pink with Resene for the Breast Cancer Foundation NZ!
Buy any Resene testpot starting with P, I, N, K during May and we’ll donate $1 to Breast Cancer Foundation NZ.
Offer applies to all Resene 60ml testpots with colour names starting with P, I, N, K purchased at the normal retail price in May 2021 at Resene owned ColorShops.
Representation Review 2021: the results from our informal survey are in! Your responses will help us create the initial proposal for the Representation Review, which will be open for consultation in July.
We've put your feedback into pie charts which you can check out at the Central Library, … View moreRepresentation Review 2021: the results from our informal survey are in! Your responses will help us create the initial proposal for the Representation Review, which will be open for consultation in July.
We've put your feedback into pie charts which you can check out at the Central Library, or online at the link below.
www.wdc.govt.nz...
Hello all
I am still after some old bricks please - similar to the old Kamo brickworks ones but I will look at anything
Does anyone have any hiding in the back yard they would like to sell?
Many thanks
An undeclared allergen has forced the recall of a Pams food product.
Foodstuffs Own Brands Ltd has recalled Pams Brand Cassava Vege Crisps Original 150g, due to the possible presence of milk, an allergen that is not declared on the ingredients list.
In a statement, the Ministry for Primary … View moreAn undeclared allergen has forced the recall of a Pams food product.
Foodstuffs Own Brands Ltd has recalled Pams Brand Cassava Vege Crisps Original 150g, due to the possible presence of milk, an allergen that is not declared on the ingredients list.
In a statement, the Ministry for Primary Industries says that any customer with a milk allergy or intolerance should return the product to their retailer for a full refund.
What you need to know:
- The product is sold at Pak'n Save, New World and Four Square stores throughout New Zealand.
- It is sold in a 150g package.
- Best before date is 19 OCT 21.
- No other flavour is affected.
Customers with any questions or concerns are encouraged to contact Foodstuffs Own Brands Ltd.
Phone: 0800 24 51 14
Address: 35 Landing Drive, Mangere, Auckland.
To find out more about the recall, head to the New Zealand Food Safety Website.
From the where oceans collide at Cape Reinga, to the oyster-ridden seaboards of Bluff - it's time for you to spin the map of Aotearoa and see where your finger lands.
To take some of the stress out of your long weekend roadtrip plans, we're giving 10 lucky winners petrol vouchers … View moreFrom the where oceans collide at Cape Reinga, to the oyster-ridden seaboards of Bluff - it's time for you to spin the map of Aotearoa and see where your finger lands.
To take some of the stress out of your long weekend roadtrip plans, we're giving 10 lucky winners petrol vouchers from Mobil or Z - it's your choice!
If your name's below, get in touch with us, and if you know any of your neighbours listed, be sure to congratulate them and let them know!
Betty Campbell from Northland
Aimee Crothall from Paekakariki
David Watt from Hamilton
Sarah Sharp from Auckland
Helen Fang from Auckland
Rafael Moreno from New Plymouth
Saqib Ahmad from Auckland
Maria Dela Cruz from Wellington
Suannie Burt from Carterton District
Nick Regos from Christchurch
Keep your eyes peeled for our next random draw. Until next time!
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Neighbours – now is your chance to dress up your walls and save 30% off* the extensive range of Resene wallpapers! Patterned or bold, textured or neutral – come in to your local Resene ColorShop and view the full collection. Offer ends 8 June 2021.
*Discount off the normal retail price at … View moreNeighbours – now is your chance to dress up your walls and save 30% off* the extensive range of Resene wallpapers! Patterned or bold, textured or neutral – come in to your local Resene ColorShop and view the full collection. Offer ends 8 June 2021.
*Discount off the normal retail price at Resene owned ColorShops and participating resellers until 8 June 2021. Excludes wall decals, WallPrint and clearance items. Not available in conjunction with any other offer.
AN ACCIDENTAL BUSHMAN.
The Making of a Forest Ranger.
More great yarns from the author of "Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries".
Growing up in small town Taranaki, Ross wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with his life. He just knew that he enjoyed hunting, hiking, trapping, fishing, … View moreAN ACCIDENTAL BUSHMAN.
The Making of a Forest Ranger.
More great yarns from the author of "Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries".
Growing up in small town Taranaki, Ross wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with his life. He just knew that he enjoyed hunting, hiking, trapping, fishing, and exploring the wilds of New Zealand. The outdoors was Ross’ element.
During his first year out of secondary school, a chance newspaper advertisement launched Ross upon a career that would take him through many adventures over four decades, through 42 countries, and innumerable close shaves.
In An Accidental Bushman (the prequel to Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries, published in 2019), Ross tells about how it all came to be—and about some of the incorrigible larrikins, precarious predicaments, and hair-raising exploits that shaped his training and early career as a Forest Ranger in New Zealand.
Ross has a way of telling a story that draws you into the moment and sweeps you along with the action. There are plenty of laughs (some at Ross’s expense) and enough scrapes and shenanigans to make you wonder how Ross ever survived to write the book!
An Accidental Bushman sometimes reads like a hilarious instruction book of what not to do, with many of Ross’s ill-fated adventures stemming from what simply seems like a good idea at the time—like his disastrous introduction to boating with no experience, no safety gear, and ultimately no working engine! Ross makes a habit of crashing vehicles, manufactures cyanide possum bait (and lives to tell the tale), gets seriously lost in the bush, spends a night in a haunted hut, gets marooned on an island amidst swirling floodwaters, contracts hypothermia, and survives some memorable culinary disasters. It’s clear that without his uncanny knack of always falling on his feet, Ross wouldn’t be with us to tell these stories today.
Ross also shares yarns of the colourful bunch of larrikins with whom he trained, worked, and socialised, regaling us with tales of interrupted trysts, foul revenge, forest fires, thieving wildlife, crippling hangovers, poaching, parties, and motorised mayhem.
The book includes some 60 photographs from Ross’s vast collection which richly illustrate his writing.
Settle in for another book of rip-roaring adventures that’s as hard to put down as the last one!
Text Ross on 021662424
Price includes NZ postage.
Price: $25
CANNIBALS, CROCODILES AND CASSOWARIES.
A New Zealand Forest Ranger in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea.
More great yarns from the author of "An Accidental Bushman".
It is 1967 in Papua New Guinea.
Despite never having left New Zealand before, Ross takes to living and working in the … View moreCANNIBALS, CROCODILES AND CASSOWARIES.
A New Zealand Forest Ranger in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea.
More great yarns from the author of "An Accidental Bushman".
It is 1967 in Papua New Guinea.
Despite never having left New Zealand before, Ross takes to living and working in the jungle like he was born there, right down to learning Pidgin and eating bush meat from some particularly suspicious sources.
From hair-raising experiments with stump-blasting to being caught in the arrow-fire of a tribal battle, Ross’s life is never dull. He has a tug-of-war with a reef shark over his dinner catch, witnesses (and photographs) a young men’s initiation ritual that few non-natives have ever seen, visits cannibals and head-hunters in their isolated villages, gets caught in storms at sea in an open boat, climbs to ancient rock-paintings and burial caves, experiences the mysterious power of native superstition, races against time to get death adder victims to hospital, witnesses more post-mortems than he cares to remember, gets arrested in PNG’s Eastern Highlands for photographing a chain gang at work (and talks his way free with photos intact), goes crocodile hunting with a barking dog for bait, seeks out the isolated tribe that suffers from the “laughing death” (kuru), encounters fascinating customs among isolated tribes, and collects the artefacts that formed the backbone of the National Museum of New Zealand’s PNG collection at that time.
When he encounters jungle bridges that have lost their decks, he drives his Holden across the stringers! When asked by the NZ National Museum’s Curator of Pacific Ethnology to procure or photograph a rare fertility figure that no-one in PNG is even prepared to talk about, Ross makes a secretive deal with a witchdoctor that results in him smuggling one out of a remote village wrapped in his spare shirt.
Text Ross on 021662424
Price includes NZ postage
Price: $25
Rats & Mice are back!
Contact PESTWORX - the Rodent Control specialists
0800 737 896 | 09 407 7389
info@pestworx.co.nz
Experts say the predicted slow-down in property price growth is already happening in Whangārei and other provincial centres, as landlords shy from the market. Is this impacting you in a negative way? Are you not able to get the price you want? Or are you struggling to get a rental? Conversely, are… View moreExperts say the predicted slow-down in property price growth is already happening in Whangārei and other provincial centres, as landlords shy from the market. Is this impacting you in a negative way? Are you not able to get the price you want? Or are you struggling to get a rental? Conversely, are you able to buy a home for the first time?
This week in Dargaville we have a “make an offer table” on selected items only. We are at 48 Victoria Street Dargaville. Come and see what’s on offer and make an offer on selected items.
here is the chance for clever Kerikeri people, incl. children, to train their intelligence! On 26 June starts the Kerikeri chess club (11am-2 pm at the library). Please come and enjoy the game that puts fact above mere opinion!
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