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27th, August
Website Update
We have changed the forecast graph axis to display the week day and date at 12 pm (noon) rather than 12 am (midnight).
Hopefully this will help make it easier to understand.
March 10 (BusinessWire) – Satara Cooperative Group, the fruit packer and coolstore
operator, posted a 24% decline in full-year earnings, as a poorer harvest reduced
fruit volumes, prompting a focus on increased efficiencies, including new automatic ...
Heinz Wattie’s Managing Director Nigel Comer has announced the appointment of Tim
Skellern as General Manager Marketing, the role previously held by Mike Pretty who
is now Vice President, Global Ketchup, Health & Wellness, and Marketing Development ...
Amongst the serious business on the agenda at this year’s New Zealand Rural General
Practice conference, author, columnist, wit and raconteur Joe Bennett will be lurking
ready to inject a healthy dose of humour into proceedings. He is not a doctor. He ...
March 5 (BusinessWire) - As a bouncy young Minister in 1992, Simon Upton dismembered
the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and created the Crown Research
Institutes, to various shrieks of heresy and with perhaps too much the idea they ...
March 4 (BusinessWire) - Crown Research Institutes, New Zealand's government-funded
science agencies, need less bureaucratic supervision, properly functioning boards,
and shouldn’t start their own businesses when private partners would do a better ...
According to the latest report from Nielsen, the New Zealand wine phenomenon has
continued to gather pace in Australia with volume sales up a massive 42.3 percent
over the financial year to 2009, and sales value has doubled over the last three ...
Biosecurity officers at Auckland International Airport won’t need to clean any
dirty shoes belonging to a select group of international scientists arriving next
week for the 5th International Phytophthora working party meeting.
MAF Biosecurity has issued a new 'law' (under delegated authority) to start detaining
thousands of low risk containers, physically inspect all six sides of each box, while
charging importers $100 per hour plus fees.
March 1 (BusinessWire) – The price of raw materials produced in New Zealand posted
their 12th straight gain last month, led by rising lamb, skins and beef, according
to the ANZ Commodity Price Index.
Sometimes I Don’t Like Yellow is the first production of recently formed group,
My Accomplice Theatre and it’s a good start. The premise of the play is: what happens
when the CEO of a pineapple company makes a mistake in peddling mysteriously addictive ...
Feb. 26 (BusinessWire) - Delegat's Group Ltd., which makes the Cloudy Bay brand wines,
is forecasting a 30%-to-40% cut in full-year earnings as it prepares to write down
the value of vineyards and their "biological assets" as wine industry oversupply ...
The tabling of the Auditor-General’s water demand performance audit report in Parliament
today should give the residents of the Tasman District confidence in the planning
and management of their water.
