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She said some organisations were based in Timaru but covered other regions. Timaru beneficiaries that received the most in this round were Citizens Advice Bureau which gained $10,000 for operational expenses, and Timaru Riding for the Disabled with $6643 for new office technology. South Canterbury Stroke Club received $3000, while Parent to Parent benefited by $2500. Parent to Parent spokesperson Alicia King said the group was ‘’very grateful’’ for the grant which would go towards its support groups and travel expenses. “The money will allow us to continue to support local whanau that have a child with a disability or health impairment,’’ King said.
GO NZ: New Zealand s best value campervan sites and motorparks off the beaten track
16 Mar, 2021 04:59 PM
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Paying our way round New Zealand s best motor parks and camper sites. Photo / Hanson Lu, Unsplash
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By: Sarah Bennett
My husband Lee and I have just passed a major milestone: 500 nights in the Hiace Hilton , the little campervan we kitted out in 2011. Before that, we tented out of the back of a Nissan Bluebird. The last two decades have left us hopelessly addicted to camping the Kiwi way. I certainly never envisaged this during my childhood holidays relegated to a sandfly-infested awning at Nelson Lakes.
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Federated Farmers water quality spokesperson Chris Allen says farmers are using a wide range of management techniques to reduce nitrate leaching in Canterbury.
Canterbury’s groundwater nitrate issue has been placed at the feet of the province’s farmers by environmental activists, but NADINE PORTER asks whether it s the farmers rather than the public that have been let down. It was 1994 when Chris Allen quit his long-term job as an Air New Zealand engineer and headed to Ashburton Forks in Mid Canterbury to become, of all things, a farmer. The farming climate he entered was fractured and bruised after the Labour government implemented tight monetary reforms to right an economy that had been bottomed out by former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon’s interventionist policies.
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It was a summer of highs and lows when it came to the weather, with many Kiwis flocking outside to make to most of the sunshine and low Covid-19 alert levels (File photo).
It was a year of highs and lows – not least for the weather. With Covid-19 alert levels playing ball for much of the summer, Kiwis made the most of the sunshine. And it was a scorcher for many, with temperatures reaching 39.3 degrees Celsius in Ashburton on January 26 – the country’s 11th-hottest temperature on record. Only two months before, in mid-December, a mountain range in Otago had snow settle on its peaks, and a freak hail storm caused widespread damage in the Tasman region on Boxing Day.