A state of emergency has been declared for the entire region of Canterbury in New Zealand following torrential rain and flooding. Evacuation notices have been issued in Waimakariri District. The Waimakariri River and Ashley Rakahuri regional.
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A small event was held on Sunday to officially reopen St Peter’s Anglican Church at Church Corner in Christchurch. Architect Hugh Tennent helped refurbish the damaged church, and it had now been strengthened to 100 per cent of the building code and expanded to include a hospitality space and toilets. “We ve been working for 10 years to achieve this goal and [it] is really exciting for us to be able to celebrate and to open the church,” Mountfort said. “The new church is a really good combination of old and new. It has modern amenities like a kitchen and a hospitality area, but it has kept the majesty of the old building.”
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Simon Wakefield works in Canterbury, New Zealand, on one of the world s only deer milking farms.
Simon Wakefield left Ireland in February 2013 to embark on a six-month working holiday with friends from his agricultural business course in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Almost eight years later, he is still in New Zealand, but working on a very different project to what he originally planned.
“It was part of our course to do six months’ work experience in a business, so we went to a large scale dairy farm in Maniototo Otago, South Island,” he tells the
Irish Farmers Journal. The farm consisted of 1,600 cows on a low input system across two farms.