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East Otago experiences extremely dry conditions
13 Apr, 2021 08:45 PM
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H.A. Foote Haulage driver Ash Rogan fills up another tank of water in Midland St, Dunedin, yesterday. Photo / Christine O Connor
H.A. Foote Haulage driver Ash Rogan fills up another tank of water in Midland St, Dunedin, yesterday. Photo / Christine O Connor
Otago Daily Times
By: John Lewis and Wyatt Ryder
Water carriers are delivering up to eight truckloads of water a day as areas of East Otago experience extremely dry conditions.
Niwa s most recent New Zealand Drought Index map showed widespread dry to very dry conditions had taken hold across Otago and Eastern Southland.
Janice Harvey: Andrew Noone joins pantheon of local authors with Bathsheba Spooner
Janice Harvey
Special to Worcester Magazine
In my living a room, there’s a shelf devoted to local writers. When I was teaching English I kept this collection on display in my classroom to inspire young authors. Included are the works of Jack O’Connell, Stanley Kunitz, John Dufresne, Kevin Harvey, Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Slater, Paul Della Valle, Joe Fusco, Jr., Robert Benchley and now, Andrew Noone.
I met Andrew Noone in the third grade at Columbus Park elementary school. Instantly I was teased in the schoolyard when little girls recognized that we were both rather skinny and freckle-faced. “Andrew Noone is your boyfriend!” they sang as they danced around me. Andrew Noone never was my boyfriend, and he was not amused, though we were classmates through the 8th grade. Andrew went on to earn graduate degrees in musicology and art history as a Florence Fellow with Syracuse University, and