Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 1:24 pm
The Hamilton Zoo team has said a heartbreaking final
farewell to our much-loved chimpanzee Sally.
Zoo
Director Dr Baird Fleming, said Sally, whose 50th birthday
was celebrated in October last year, showed a rapid decline
in health at the weekend.
“Due to an
underlying heart condition, the primate and vet team have
always kept an eye on this precious girl,” said Dr
Fleming.
“Sally was a great patient and
regularly allowed her trusted caregivers to get images of
her heart. Over the weekend, for reasons unknown, Sally
stopped weight bearing on her right leg and on Monday she
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 11:25 am
For many New Zealanders, He
Puapua came shrouded in controversy from the moment it
became public knowledge earlier this year.
Released
only when opposition parties learned of its existence, the
report on “realising” the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was labelled a “separatist”
plan by National Party leader Judith Collins.
“Quite
clearly there is a plan,” Collins
said, “it is being implemented, and we are going to
call it out.”
But He Puapua is not a plan and it’s
not government policy. It’s a collection of ideas drafted
by people who are not members of the government. To
Viking Bay off the Taranaki coast.
The
two crew members were part of a group of nine who arrived at
Auckland Airport on Monday 5 July before driving to New
Plymouth to join their ship.
The two crew who tested
positive for COVID-19 stopped once on their trip from
Auckland to Taranaki to use a toilet at a Hamilton isolation
facility.
Three people who came into contact with the
crew members are self-isolating including their driver and
port workers.
Maritime Union of New Zealand National
Secretary Craig Harrison says any incident like this raises
the risk for infection.
Mr Harrison says the
Ngā mihi o te ahiahi.
Good
afternoon.
I
also want to thank you all for being here.
In the room
we’ve got a wide range of businesses represented, as well
as unions, Iwi/Māori, and campaigners.
It was
important for me to speak directly to each of you today
about the work we are doing on the Emissions Reduction Plan
and the principles we will apply to the decisions about what
goes in it.
It is these decisions – especially those
that we take in the next two years – that will have the
most profound impact on the world your children and
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 2:01 pm
It’s not every Mayor in the country that would take
their kit off to raise money for a good cause and
Carterton’s Mayor Greg Lang is very firmly in with those
that wouldn’t…but he is prepared to get close!
On
Sunday 11th July at 1.30pm come rain or shine, Mayor Greg
Lang will be leading the charge on a Midwinter dip into the
Ruamahanga River at Gladstone Inn. What he will wear is down
to how much money is raised for R2R - Rangatahi to
Rangatira, Carterton’s youth group.
R2R is a youth