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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met Blenheim apprentices from the partnership between the Woodbourne base facility management company PAE and the Ministry for Social Development (MSD). Ardern was welcomed to the base with a haka, and visited the new Air Force headquarters, freshly refitted by the PAE apprentices. “It is so critical to have people on the ground who know and love their community, she told them. “It just means it brings so much passion to the job, and I hope you get some satisfaction from seeing the difference that you are making.” After learning that it was carpentry apprentice Oliver Wiesner s birthday, Ardern led the Happy Birthday song.
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As most of New Zealand was blasted by cold southerly winds, Blenheim enjoyed a sunny, calm day on Tuesday. Cape Campbell (not shown) shelters and protects Rarangi, pictured here looking south to the Vernon/ White Bluffs. “Cape Campbell on the Marlborough coast tends to shove the southerlies across into Wellington, which is why you get such a strong southerly blast going through Cook Strait, which can cancel the ferries,” Agnew said. Speaking from Christchurch where he was holidaying, Agnew said the Seaward Kaikōura Range tended to push the southerlies out into the sea and into Cook Strait, and the Wairau Plains themselves were actually very sheltered from the southerlies.
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