The status quo leads to peasantry
About 1000 South Island meat farmers met in Gore last month to discuss the real problems the industry is facing around farming profitabily and sustainabily.
Rural
Getting perspective matters
A lesson gained from the Federated Farmers Dairy Council's meeting at the Treaty Grounds in Waitangi was the role of perspective.
Dairy council and sharemilkers' meeting
A number of issues were raised at the Federated Farmers Dairy Council meeting at Waitangi in February.
Great vintage in the making
About this time every year you might see strange-looking machinery rolling slowly along the main roads around Hawke's Bay.
Property
House prices rise with confidence
Christchurch housing valuations have increased by 7.8 per cent in the last year.
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Business
Finance: Be aware of GST obligations
The lifestyle block is becoming as popular in New Zealand as the quarter-acre dream.
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Local News
Brave teens honoured as heroes for driver rescue
Two teenagers who leapt into the Halswell River and saved an unconscious motorist, who could have drowned, "feel like heroes".
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Local Envirotown trust lauded as award finalist
Region lashed by heavy rain
'Spree' ends at river
Two men and a woman who allegedly torched two four-wheel-drive vehicles at the...
Motoring
Motorsport: Family fun the classic way
Todd Forsyth must have shares in a fuel company to run this much-modified 1974 MGBGT, spotted racing at Pukekohe one recent rainy Saturday.
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NZ Herald
Disorientated school tramping party rescued in heavy fog
Otago Boys' High School rector Clive Rennie is backing the decisions of two teachers who had to be rescued along with 10 pupils from the Rock and Pillar Range on Saturday night. Twenty Land Search and Rescue (SAR) volunteers from Dunedin and 10 Middlemarch farmers were sent to rescue the school tramping party, after the teachers and teenagers became disorientated in heavy fog and mist about 7.30pm. They spent about six hours sheltering among snow tussock and rock below the ridge on the Middlemarch side of the range. Cellphone coverage in the area was patchy and the batteries in the group's…
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