A few photos from the 2009 Annual Southdown Tour.
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- Weather: Rain and storms set to hit Central North Island as sunshine peeps in Auckland 21/12/2024Motorists are being warned to drive 'carefully' as heavy falls start in Rotorua, Taupō. […]
- Weather: North Island braces for thunderstorms, hail and heavy downpours 20/12/2024Motorists are being warned to drive 'extremely carefully'. […]
- Nichol Ashton Larney and the story behind Waihou’s historic Comley Green 20/12/2024Nichol Ashton Larney arrived in NZ in 1875 and became prominent in the Piako District. […]
- Weather: Rain and storms set to hit Central North Island as sunshine peeps in Auckland 21/12/2024
Farming News
- Letters to the Editor: cruise ships, the ORC building and the hospitalA cruise ship smoke stack. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cov […]
- Missing woman and children locatedThe woman and her two children reported missing earlier today in Christchurch have been located and […]
- Letters to the Editor: cruise ships, the ORC building and the hospital
Country News
- Alliance group Smithfield plant in Timaru shuts its doors after 138 yearsRed-meat co-op Alliance says it will be an "emotional time" for the 55 remaining meat workers at its Smithfield plant today. […]
- Country Life: A historic Hawke's Bay homestead finds new lifeWallingford Homestead in Central Hawke's Bay was once a bustling base for the local farming community. These days it's helping bridge the ur […]
- Country Life: Teens ride high in the world of rodeoThe rodeo season is underway and Waikato sisters Lylah and Riley Wood are in an arena practising their rodeo skills, a sport which has taken them to t […]
- Country Life: Christmas tree farmer makes massive maize mazeThousands of perfectly shaped trees are harvested in the lead-up to the festive season at Andrew McAllister's Needle Fresh Christmas tree farm in […]
- King Country farmer 'counting lucky stars' after quad bike accident, urges farm safetyThe warning comes as rural insurer FMG says there is often a spike in quad bike roll-overs in the lead-up to Christmas. […]
- Dry conditions prompt fire bans in Hawke's Bay and OtagoFire and Emergency is banning fireworks, open-air fires and sky lanterns in many areas of Hawke's Bay and Otago. […]
- Ni-Vanuatu fruit pickers 'worried' over fate of quake-affected relativesKiwifruit company Seeka is supporting 100 ni-Vanuatu fruit pickers helping with summer pruning to contact their families back home. […]
- 'No signs' of avian influenza outside of Otago farm, tests continue - MPIFurther tests are being carried out to ensure there was no spread beyond the one farm. […]
- Prominent Canterbury High Country farmer Colin Drummond has diedHe is the second prominent Canterbury farming leader to die in a week. […]
- Hold or sell below cost: Velvet farmers facing tough seasonDue to the flooded market, prices are back by about 20 percent which means some farmers will not make a profit this season. […]
- Researcher urges caution on rock lobster catch limit increaseSeafood industry players are welcoming a government proposal to ease catch limits - but an academic says the rock lobster population may not support i […]
- Alliance group Smithfield plant in Timaru shuts its doors after 138 years
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