Monday, 5 July 2021, 12:05 pm
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is encouraging
all farmers and growers affected by flooding in Canterbury
to apply for support from a new $4 million
fund.
Applications will open this week for the
expanded Canterbury Flood Recovery Fund, which was set up to
support the region’s recovery from a one in 200-year
rainfall event.
“This financial support will help
flood-affected farmers and growers across Canterbury to get
back on their feet as quickly as possible,” says MPI’s
Deputy Director-General of Agriculture and Investment
Services Karen Adair.
“The clean-up task ahead of
primary producers is massive and some are facing significant
Monday, 5 July 2021, 2:47 pm
The Sailability Whanganui Trust is thrilled to
acknowledge a grant of $7,000 towards the construction of a
boat shed to provide secure and independent storage of all
their boats and equipment, not only keeping them safe from
damage by other users, but also reducing the risk of theft
or misuse.
Volunteer Secretary/Treasurer Bob Davies
commented, “The Sailability Whanganui Trust has been
providing sailing opportunities for sailors who have a range
of physical abilities and complex needs since 2014. Starting
with two loan boats, it now owns four special yachts and a
support boat, but no purpose-built facility in which to
Monday, 5 July 2021, 3:40 pm
A farmer has been sentenced to nine months’ home
detention and banned from owning or managing farm animals
for four years for serious animal welfare
offending.
Bevan Scott Tait (52) received his sentence
by audio visual link at the Invercargill District Court
today having earlier pleaded guilty to eight charges under
the Animal Welfare Act.
As a result of his offending,
226 of his sheep and three lambs had to be euthanised
because they were emaciated and suffered from
flystrike.
MPI Animal Welfare launched an
investigation at his Tussock Creek, Southland farm following
a complaint in 2019. That led to a series of inspections
Monday, 5 July 2021, 3:07 pm
Despite huge numbers of families struggling to make ends
meet, communities across the country have taken action on
food poverty in greater numbers than ever before with New
Zealand s only online foodbank seeing a record breaking 500
percent increase in donations over the past year. But it’s
still not enough.
As winter sets in, The Salvation
Army is seeing incredibly high demand for food and is
expecting to give out 20,000 food parcels over the colder
months to people struggling with the essentials.
The Foodbank
Project, led by The Salvation Army with major support
from Countdown, provides an easily accessible way to top up
Australian traveller who visited
Wellington
So far, 2,726 people have been identified
as contacts of the Australian person who visited Wellington
between 19 and 21 June.
Of those 2,726 total contacts,
2,670 or 98% of people have returned an initial negative
result, an increase of 21 negative test results since
yesterday.
33 people have been granted a clinical
exemption and 22 require no further action.
The
remaining person is being actively followed up by contact
tracing teams.
We’d like to remind all New
Zealanders that anyone who is symptomatic should call
Healthline on 0800 358 5453 for advice on
testing.
Testing
On Sunday, 3,140 tests were processed
across New Zealand.
The seven-day rolling average is