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Many Auckland GPs ruled out of vaccination campaign by DHB rule Many Auckland GPs ruled out of vaccination campaign by DHB rule Wed, 21 Apr 2021, 4:43PM Many GP clinics will be ruled out of Aucklands vaccination campaign because they cannot administer enough doses in a day. Photo / AP Many Auckland GPs ruled out of vaccination campaign by DHB rule Wed, 21 Apr 2021, 4:43PM A large portion of Aucklands GPs and urgent care clinics will be rul...

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Press Release – ASB Polyfest Aorere College Tongan Group After two years of disruption, ASB Polyfest will complete a four day festival today, and celebrate its 45th anniversary in style. Last year’s festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the final day of the 2019 festival cancelled following the Christchurch mosque tragedy on March 15. But this year, ASB Polyfest is back, and set for a huge day of traditional performance. In looking ahead to the final day of the 2021 festi...

Saturday, 17 April 2021, 1:14 pm Aorere College Tongan Group After two years of disruption, ASB Polyfest will complete a four day festival today, and celebrate its 45th anniversary in style. Last year’s festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the final day of the 2019 festival cancelled following the Christchurch mosque tragedy on March 15. But this year, ASB Polyfest is back, and set for a huge day of traditional performance. In looking ahead to the final day of the 2021 fe...

Loan-to-value ratios (LVRs) already allow borrowers to get loans on new builds with a smaller deposit than they would need for an existing property. For a new build, first-home buyers can usually have a deposit of 10 per cent while property investors are currently required to have a deposit of 20 per cent. In contrast, first-home buyers usually need a deposit of 20 per cent to buy an existing house and investors effectively need a 40 per cent deposit already, although that’s not official ...

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“ How Bizarre just didnt sound like anything else. So when it came out a lot of people went ‘what the f... is this’ because it just sounded so odd,” recalls New Zealand music stalwart Simon Grigg, who funded and released the song, co-writen by Fuemana and producer Alan Jansson, on his independent label Huh! Records in 1995. “But when you hear it two or three times on the radio, all of a sudden it just sounds fresh. And, now, you listen to top 40 radio and pretty much everything soun...

+Undoctored Media release from the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre Wednesday 14 April 2021, 04:19 PM 3 minutes to Read Frontline emergency service workers were among the first to get their COVID-19 vaccinations as Auckland’s second large-scale community vaccination centre opened in Mt Wellington today. The Mt Wellington site on Leonards Road, joins Highbrook Drive, East Tamaki as the second vaccination centre capable of vaccinating up to 1,000 people per day once operating...

St John Covid lead and intensive care paramedic Rebekah Judd said the vaccination process was very straightforward and encouraged everyone to take up the vaccine when it is offered. “Our people are often the first to respond when people become ill from Covid-19, and we’re pleased to be able to support the Government’s vaccination roll-out while also ensuring our people are safe,” she said. Northern Region Health Coordination Centre Programme Lead Matt Hannant said that vaccination ce...

Aupito William Sio said since he was a young boy he had never liked needles. The minister is welcomed with an ava ceremony at the Otara Vaccination Centre Photo: RNZ Pacific / Christine Rovoi But he turned up at the Vaccination Centre in Otara, South Auckland, today to get his jab. Aupito said it was important he got vaccinated to give the community confidence and assurance that the vaccine was safe. He said that while he didnt like needles, getting vaccinated was the right thing to do And Aup...