154 days ago

Visit us at the A&P Show, Saturday 7 December 2024

The Team from Whangarei District Council

We'll be bringing some of our stars from last year and a bunch of new stuff including Max the education dog (shown below), a super-cool kids' play-table, free fuit 🍎🍇🍌🍓🍏, and photo opportunities.

It's also a great place to stop by and have a conversation about what matters to you, what we're up to lately and how you can Have Your Say in the community. Find us near the main entrance at Barge Park Showgrounds, 9:00am until 4:30pm.

🚌 PS: You can catch a FREE bus to get there. All CityLink buses will be free on the day thanks to Northland Regional Council, and we're also providing a free show-bus from the Rose Street bus station.

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2 days ago

Poll: Are domestic flights with Air NZ out of your budget?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

A Tauranga man has filed a complaint with the Commerce Commission, claiming that due to dynamic pricing, it’s cheaper for him to fly to Los Angeles than to book a flight for his daughter from Tauranga to Wellington.

Do you think their pricing needs addressed to encourage more people to fly?

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Are domestic flights with Air NZ out of your budget?
  • 95.2% Yes, it's too expensive
    95.2% Complete
  • 4% No, it's reasonable
    4% Complete
  • 0.7% Other - I'll share below
    0.7% Complete
1115 votes
1 hour ago

Libraries popularity grows in new yearly stats

The Team from Whangarei District Council

New stats show Whangārei libraries are thriving community hubs! 📔

Library Manager Paula Urlich says it’s really encouraging to see the use of libraries continuing to increase. “In the past, people thought that libraries would become obsolete with the rise of eBooks. In fact, we’re finding the opposite; people still want to read physical books and the borrowing of physical books is increasing at a faster rate than that of eBooks.”

The average number of items borrowed per month, over the past year is 66,000 and average monthly visitors to the libraries is 32,000. This is an increase from the previous year, which saw an average of 63,000 items borrowed per month and 31,000 average monthly visitors.

📸 Picture: Library staff are still buzzing from the Night Café Whangārei at the Central Library during the Love it Here Festival. Performances, tutorials, tours, board games and writing competitions generated a warm, inviting atmosphere where visitors could hang out and ‘just be’.

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10 hours ago

KEVIN BLOODY WILSON AUSSIE ICON TOUR

Pacific Entertainment

Don’t miss the much loved, outrageously funny Aussie icon in KERIKERI and WHANGAREI on 29 & 30 August at the start of his new Aussie Icon Tour throughout NZ, performing again his funniest songs, hilarious stories and shooting down political correctness supported by Jenny Talia from Australia.

He’s fair-dinkum funny helping to prevent global boring!

His loyal fans should not miss this further opportunity to enjoy another big dose of Kev, and for those not yet acquainted you’re invited to enjoy a knee-slapping, hilarious night out. R18.
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