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Groomsman Jason McMillan pictured on the road with blood on his clothes, as the two boaties are treated by ambulance staff.
A wedding party at a Marlborough Sounds resort rescued two men injured in a boat crash at the weekend, using kayaks to reach the sinking boat. Bride Robyn McLaughlin, of Wellington, said her bridal party had “just put their face masks on” when they heard a loud bang near The Portage Hotel in the Kenepuru Sound, about 11pm on Friday. “We had heard the boat start up in the bay, and I remember thinking, ‘I hope that’s not the boys, at that time of night’. And then we heard the crash,” she said.
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Research could help stem bee decline. (First published on January 11, 2020) And while Lukey didn’t send honey to Japan directly, he expected the Ministry for Primary Industries to require glyphosate tests because a lot of his buyers did. “It wouldn’t be too bad for everyone to test their honey for a year, so we can have an idea of the situation but it costs money and it is money that we don t need to spend. “If we do have a snake that we have to deal with, at least let s find out how big the snake is.” Lukey said he wouldn’t be surprised to find traces of glyphosate in his products.
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Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
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If you want to experience New Zealand s most beautiful places – and I mean experience them, not just look at them from afar – you need to suffer a certain amount of discomfort.
You need to lug a pack groaning under the weight of a week s worth of food. You need to put up with mosquitoes invading your tent, a wafer-thin mattress and dehydrated meals. Don t even start me on breaking camp in the rain or sharing a hut with a dozen incurable snorers.
His cousin, Tim Nott, was leaving his job as chef at the Rydges Hotel in Christchurch to be head chef. Another cousin, Ashleigh Nott, a hairdresser by trade, was joining the team too. Behind this new family business, Thomas wanted to set up an affordable and low-key place, based on what he enjoyed as a child on his way out to the Sounds.
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Cieran Thomas, with AD (Adventure Dog), plans to use only the cafe-restaurant part of the building for now. “Places like Waikawa Bay . or Momorangi Bay, they used to have those little shops with icecream and lollies, milk and bread for camping . All these kinds of necessities you need when you are out on the road.”