Speech – The Maori Party

TE URUROA FLAVELL (Māori Party—Waiariki): Tēnā koe, Mr Assistant Speaker, kia ora tātau e te Whare. I a tātau e kōrero nei i ngā take o te mātauranga, e tika ana kia huri ngā whakaaro ki tērā o ngā mātanga, ngā tohunga o roto o Tainui …
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Press Release – Meat And Wool New Zealand

Sheep and beef farmers have voted to continue their investment in sheepmeat and beef activities through Meat & Wool New Zealand, but they have not supported the continuation of a wool or goatmeat levy.
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Press Release – Ballance Farm Environment awards

Wairarapa farm manager Daniel Houston entered last year’s Ballance Farm Environment Awards to “find out what it’s all about”. He and the farm’s owners certainly weren’t expecting to win a major category award.
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Press Release – oilyrag.co.nz

The newspapers are telling us mortgagee sales are happening in record numbers, and there is no doubt some are finding the going tough. The problem is usually a familiar one – too much debt and too little savings. For many people who want to live with …
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Press Release – Pacific Blue

acific Blue starts its new international services from Hamilton this week with celebrations beginning this afternoon when one of the airline’s Boeing 737-800 aircraft lands at the city’s airport for the first time, in preparation for tomorrow morning’s …
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Press Release – Green Party

The Government has rejected one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing New Zealand’s carbon emissions, the Green Party said today. “Stephen Joyce’s announcement that work will stop on fuel economy standards for vehicles coming into New Zealand …
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Article – Businesswire

August 31 (BusinessWire) – Guinness Peat Group Plc, the investment company chaired by Ron Brierley, narrowed its first-half loss as it returned to profit on its investment income while warning of ongoing weakness at its Coats threadmaker business. Its shares …
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Article – Businesswire

August 31 (BusinessWire) – The New Zealand dollar held above 68 U.S. cents before the National Bank Business Outlook, which will show whether the previous month’s optimism has endured, and after Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said the economy …
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Press Release – Commerce Commission

The Commerce Commission announced today that it has launched an investigation into an alleged breach of the Separation Undertakings by Telecom’s Wholesale business unit. This decision follows receipt of the Independent Oversight Group’s (IOG) …
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Press Release – www.sorted.org.nz

Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan believes the recession and a campaign featuring real New Zealanders are responsible for the continuing increase in people using Sorted resources over the past year. “Nearly 30 per cent of New Zealanders have now visited …
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Press Release – NIWA

The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a multi-million dollar partnership where NIWA will purchase one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for use in environmental forecasting. …
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Press Release – Maritime Union of New Zealand

The Maritime Union has stepped up its demand for answers as fallout continues from Fonterra’s dumping of regional ports in favour of long distance rail – and the influence that state subsidies to KiwiRail may have had on any deal. KiwiRail has …
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Article – Businesswire

Aug 31 (BusinessWire) – The Commerce Commission is launching an investigation into an alleged breach of Telecom’s Separation Undertakings.
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Article – Businesswire

August 31 – The following stocks may be active on the New Zealand exchange after developments since the close of trading yesterday.
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Article – Businesswire

August 31 (BusinessWire) – The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 fell on Friday after a survey showed consumer confidence dropped to a four-month low in August.
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Press Release – TVNZ

TVNZ’s Q+A IVs Local Govt Minister Rodney Hide: Rodney Hide wants STV elections for Auckland City Council to boost Maori representation – ACT’s anti-Maori seats stance is a sign that the party is pro-Treaty of Waitangi – Local Government minister happy …
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Press Release – TVNZ

Points of interest: Q+A’s Guyan Espiner interviews Manukau mayor Len Brown who declares he’s running for Auckland mayoralty – Transportation, especially public transport, is his top priority – Brown supports Maori seats on Auckland council to bring people …
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Press Release – Fitness Life

August 29, 2009. Auckland: The New Zealand fitness industry’s premier event was held on Friday night, August 28, at Auckland’s Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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Press Release – Enterprise North Shore

North Shore technology company, Ingram Micro New Zealand Ltd, walked away with supreme honours at the Westpac Enterprise North Shore Business Excellence Awards at North Harbour Stadium.
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Press Release – TVNZ

It’s 40 years ago this year since the first network news broadcast in NZ yet it appears that at not time in our transmission history has there been a live broadcast from Milford Sound.
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