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Sergeant Brett Neal has been recognised for his bravery after climbing into a burning vehicle and covering a man with his own body until firefighters arrived.
The 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes dramatically changed Christchurch s landscape, with many heritage buildings lost.
The White Ferns were in Christchurch on February 22, 2011, about to play the Australians in an ODI series, when the deadly earthquake struck.
Frankie Mackay, a young Canterbury all-rounder, was about to make her international cricket debut. Ten years later, she’s been recalled into the White Ferns for their ODI series against England, the first game on Tuesday at Christchurch’s Hagley Oval.
Mackay tells Trevor Auger about that terrible day in this excerpt from his new book,
The Warm Sun on My Face – The Story of Women’s Cricket in New Zealand.
Owning a home provides security that no amount of rental law cannot.
The trouble is that house prices do not reflect the cost of owning a home. They reflect the cost of the expected medium-term capital gains (post bright-line). It wasn t a problem when they reflected the expected gains upon retirement and downsizing, but now who honestly expects to be in that house for thirty years? Or do they
expect to flip it in ten years or so?
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Agree with the security bit. I ve seen the pro s and cons of home ownership debated at length in New Zealand literature. They re pretty even.
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Former White Fern Erin Bermingham trains ahead of the police women s cricket team s games against the NZ under-19s in Christchurch. Photo: David Williams FEBRUARY 15, 2021
The women under-19 cricketers take on a police side at the end of a watershed Super Smash season. David Williams reports Erin Bermingham reckons it’s a stitch-up. The former White Fern will captain the first police women’s cricket team in Christchurch this week against the first New Zealand under-19 women’s side. Both sides are hankering to play. The police’s inter-services tournament – against the army and air force – was cancelled, while the ICC under-19 World Cup, meant to be played in Bangladesh last month, was postponed until later this year.