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Prune wisteria Whether trailing across a villa veranda or dangling from an archway, wisteria in full bloom is spectacular, but they are not plants you can love and leave alone. They need pruning twice a year, or they will swamp whatever they are growing on even ripping apart weather boards and wrenching off guttering. Last summer organised gardeners will have shortened all the side shoots to about a forearm’s length to encourage formation of flower buds. Now the leaves have dropped it’s time to shorten those side shoots again to about a finger length or just a couple of buds.
The Bulletin: Muslim community to privately mark attack anniversary
The Bulletin
Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: It’s two years on from the Christchurch mosque attack, the spotlight is on commercial radio after sexual harassment claims, and Aucklanders have enjoyed their first weekend back at alert level one.
Today marks the two year anniversary of “one of New Zealand’s darkest days”. On March 15 in 2019, 51 people were killed while they worshipped in two Christchurch mosques. The terrorist, a white supremacist, injured 40 others. The perpetrator was last year sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the health ministry will look to private firms to roll out saliva Covid-19 tests at the border.
The Ministry of Health plans to ramp up surveillance testing for Covid-19 by hiring a private company to swab the saliva of border workers. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield on Thursday said the ministry wanted to use saliva tests for asymptomatic surveillance testing of border workers, likely swabbing twice a week on top of the routine use of nasal swabs. Saliva testing for Covid-19 has yet to be substantially adopted in New Zealand, despite its use in countries like Australia and the United States.