Scott Hammond/Stuff At 18, she got the chance to work in Blenheim, where her sister was living. After a brief stint in Australia, working across hospitality and retail, Moynihan moved back to Blenheim, “because everyone comes back to Blenheim”. She worked at the Quality Hotel restaurant and bar for two years, before becoming a sales agent for a rental car company at the ferry terminal in Picton. “I used to get a lot of interaction with international travellers and learnt about other people’s culture. It was fun. I like meeting new people”. After a year, Moynihan got pregnant with daughter Olivia and had a year off, with the odd job driving tractors in Marlborough’s vineyards.
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Owners of the Whitebait Inn, Jodie and Wal Death chat about their decision to sell up and move to Mokau.
A home and popular business sat on the market for years in a small coastal settlement before a Taranaki couple decided to give it a go. Kelly Dennett travelled to Mokau to find how they did it. This is a story about what it s like to look around your office after the New Year break and decide: I think I ll go now. And then actually going. It’s a story about how to change your life, and ride out the storm. It s set in Mokau, a coastal settlement on Taranaki’s northern coast just a few minutes south from the Awakino Hotel and Pub on State Highway 3, where you can greet your beer in gumboots.
Emergency services are responding to a campervan rolled on State Highway Three in North Taranaki. The crash happened about 9.17am on the main road north about 1km south of the Awakino Hotel, a police spokeswoman said. Police, firefighters and ambulance staff have been called to the scene.
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