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People queue to catch whiff of corpse flower plant in Dunedin
18 Jan, 2021 12:48 AM
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Checking out the corpse plant at the Dunedin Botanic Gardens on Saturday were Suliya (5, left) and Sarina (7) Li, of Dunedin. Photo / Christine O Connor
Checking out the corpse plant at the Dunedin Botanic Gardens on Saturday were Suliya (5, left) and Sarina (7) Li, of Dunedin. Photo / Christine O Connor
Otago Daily Times
People queued up at the gates of the Dunedin Botanic Garden to take a whiff of the city s famously stinky plant.
About 50 people were already lined up at 8am on Saturday to check out the corpse plant (Amorphophallus titanum), which began to flower on Friday for just the second time.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is America s top private farmland owner. Gates and his wife, Melinda, own 242,000-acres across the U.S., according to The Land Report. Gates farmland includes 69,071-acres in Louisiana.
Northland news in brief: Scrub fire dealt with quickly, and historic site s open day
14 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Firefighter Paul O Sullivan dampens down a fire in scrub on Tauroa St, Raumanga, yesterday morning. Photo / Tania Whyte
Northern Advocate
Whangārei firefighters were able to prevent a small bush fire from burning out of control in Raumanga yesterday morning. Within four minutes of receiving the emergency call at 8.20am two fire crews were at the scene of the 10 by five metre burn on Tauroa St in Raumanga.
Whangārei station officer Rhys Wirihana said someone had kindly unlocked the gates on the private land for them to be able to get water on the fire quickly and prevent it spreading to nearby trees. Large plumes of smoke had nearby residents and motorists concerned about the scale of the fire but Wirihana said the mixture of dry grass and pampas meant the smoked gave the appearance of an inferno. Firefighters were yet to determine the cause of the fire
Yet Another Caravan Forming to Test American Border Resolve
Yet Another Caravan Forming to Test American Border Resolve
Migrants speak of reaching paradise , but their test of Biden may be premature
Yet another migrant caravan is forming in Honduras, the latest driven by hope that an incoming Joe Biden presidency will open gates closed by the outgoing Trump administration.
According to fresh media reports, this caravan hopes to leave San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on January 15, which in the unlikely event it can get past Guatemala and Mexican pandemic-related border closures, seems timed to reach the U.S.
southern border by Biden s January 20 inauguration.