Update 19 February 3pm – Waipā District Council media release An application for a renewal of an on-licence at the Five Stags Restaurant and Bar in Pirongia has been declined. The failed bid to renew…
Update 19 February 3pm – Waipā District Council media release An application for a renewal of an on-licence at the Five Stags Restaurant and Bar in Pirongia has been declined. The failed bid to renew…
Being human, means that with life, comes the inevitability of death. Being no respecter of persons, it comes for everyone. Some won’t necessarily relish engagement with this subject, hence all kinds of euphemisms are politely…
Members of the Eight Ball Group are used to being quizzed on the origins of their name. The reason has more to do with physiology than pool, it seems, because the four men who started…
Nathan Pearson isn’t your average teenage horse-enthusiast. His passion for horses began when he saddled up, aged four, for his lessons at Greenhithe Riding for the Disabled in Auckland. “I’d never seen him sit and…
Did you know that the “man on the moon” is actually made of enormous lava flows? I’m talking about the darker patches on the moon that aren’t as bright as the rest of the surface…
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand speech on January 30 didn’t shine much light on what the bank might do with the Official Cash Rate on February 28. So economists and bankers are still speculating….
Two columns in The Cambridge News (January 18) drew attention to the massive problems facing New Zealand as a result of decades of short-term planning and under-funding of the county’s infrastructure at both the national…
As distilleries go, the laundry did the job, but a purpose-designed facility is a huge and significant upgrade, says the co-founder of a Cambridge gin distillery. James Coote, who is also a Rowing NZ coach,…
Ōhaupō university student Pieta Bouma – who became a paraplegic in 2019 – was guest speaker at Sacred Heart Girls’ College in Hamilton last week. Pieta, then aged 19, was on a gap year and…
Yvonne Steel called The News office on Monday because she was excited at the success of her work in the vege patch. Her beefsteak tomatoes were huge – and the behemoth pumpkin seeds from Mitre…
