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A huge model ship in the waiting room of his practice in Mt Victoria, Wellington, meticulously and painstakingly put together by Lamb, is a nod to this. The scrupulousness in his work, be it treating patients directly or in his trials and research, was his trademark. Lamb’s research and trials were a defining part of his medical career. He was a founding member of the Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TTROG), working with doctors and researchers from Aotearoa and Australia to find b...

More trees, more residents, and a linear park are among ideas being considered as part of a 30-year-vision for Nelson’s city centre.

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Tratman Award Citations Tratman Award, 2019 The prestigious Tratman Award (in memory of E.K. Tratman, who died in 1978) is awarded annually for a caving-related, paper-based publication, to recognise excellence and encourage future improvement. It is one of the UK’s premier national caving awards, but is open to authors and publishers from Britain and Ireland. First awarded for the publications of 1979, the Tratman Award was administered by the Ghar Parau Found...

Australian telco fined $39M for exploiting Indigenous folk By ROD McGUIRKMay 13, 2021 GMT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra was fined 50 million Australian dollars ($39 million) on Thursday for unconscionable conduct in selling remote Indigenous customers mobile phone contracts that they did not understand and could not afford. The fine ordered by a Federal Court judge is the second largest ever imposed under Australian consumer law. Telstra...

CANBERRA: Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra was fined A$50 million (US$39 million) on Thursday (May 13) for unconscionable ...

The fine ordered by a Federal Court judge is the second-largest ever imposed under Australian consumer law Australias largest telecommunications company Telstra was fined $39 million on Thursday for unconscionable conduct in selling remote indigenous customers mobile phone contracts that they did not understand and could not afford. The fine ordered by a Federal Court judge is the second-largest ever imposed under Australian consumer law. Telstra admitted the offenses in signing up 108 indigen...

May 14, 2021 CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (AP) — Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra was fined USD39 million yesterday for unconscionable conduct in selling remote indigenous customers mobile phone contracts that they did not understand and could not afford. The fine ordered by a Federal Court judge is the second largest ever imposed under Australian consumer law. Telstra admitted the offences in signing up 108 Indigenous customers, some of whom spoke English as a second or third ...

East Ruston Old Vicarage Gardens This collection of beautiful gardens created by Alan Gray and Graham Robeson covers a vast range, from deserts to Mediterranean, from veg garden to glasshouse and most horticultural points in between. Elsing Hall, Dereham Something of a hidden treasure, Elsing Halls moated manor house was built around 1470 by the Hastings family. Set in a small park, old English roses are a notable, and highly aromatic, feature of the gardens. elsinghall.com / 01362 637 866...

Then on Wednesday the regional transport committee deliberated on submissions to the Regional Land Transport Plan – a total of 45 written submissions were made on the 10-year transport plan – and Nelson Tasman Regional Public Transport Plan which had a total of 144 submissions. The committee approved an amended transport plan to go to full council for submission to Waka Kotahi, however the public feedback on the public transport plan called for more significant changes than time allowed,...