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The Le Laperouse cruise ship docks down on Auckland s Queens Wharf during the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020.
One cruise ship will call at Timaru this summer –with New Zealand passengers only. New Zealand Cruise Association chief executive Kevin O’Sullivan confirmed that the Le Laperouse, owned by French company Ponant Cruises, will call at Timaru on February 28. There would be 100 New Zealand passengers only on board because of Covid-19 restrictions, which was fewer than the ship’s capacity for up to 264 passengers. Permission for the cruises was granted by the Government in late 2020. “Timaru is one of the fortunate ones,” O’Sullivan said.
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One of the few big fireworks that worked during the Caroline Bay New Year display early on New Year s Day 2020.
The year began with a fizzer in South Canterbury but it was not Coronavirus/Covid-19 related writes Doug Sail in the first of our series looking back on the year that was – one in which our world changed dramatically. 2020 was just minutes old when thousands gathered at Caroline Bay in Timaru were unknowingly given an early insight of a year ahead which would be full of disappointment through the disruption of everything from events to business and education to health.