A rejection of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy

This central government intervention, by Labour and previously by National, is making a nonsense of collaborative; locally-based decision making under the Canterbury Water Management Strategy. The result -a terrible waste of 10 years of blood, sweat and tears https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/canterbury-top-stories/122839840/did-the-government-just-cancel-canterbury-dairying-meeting-the-tough-new-freshwater-standards

Albie Waters and the Ohoka Rugby Married Singles Shield

For the record: A 2013 account of Married Singles Shield by Div 2/3 Vet, Keith ‘Aussie’ Eleftheriou. Appearing in the late, lamented, ‘Ohoka Tribune’. (Edited for this readership) The media scrum gets out of hand… In a media conference of the highest order, Tim Fulton, Esq. DIC, woke everyone up and made a formal announcement of the Married’s Squad to take on the Singles in the grudge match of the

Straight off the Tussock: Wahine – a survivor’s story

Just after 6am on Wednesday April 10, 1968, passengers on the Union Steamship Company’s inter-island vessel, Wahine, were woken in Wellington Harbour when the ship hit Barrett’s Reef. Jack was a director of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company – and one of many Wahine passengers heading to the capital that day on business trips. I had a meeting with the Meat Board and heard the weather forecast early on the

Personal rights in the ‘time of Covid’

A Covid requirement for you to consider. What is the legality and purpose of a contractor at a public facility, Auckland airport here, asking for someone walking into the building to present both ticket (as proof of travel) and an identity card (to match the ticket). What bearing does either have on Covid prevention and tracing – and why, if it is applied this way in Auckland on Tuesday Sep