Monday, 26 July 2021, 4:10 pm
The Emergency Management team continues to liaise with
MetService and NIWA for the latest weather information.
Scattered rain is expected to ease this evening with a
mainly fine forecast for tomorrow. A period of more settled
weather is predicted over the rest of the
week.
Marlborough Emergency Management Incident
Controller Richard McNamara says although we are
experiencing some rain, it is a small spike, not a major
event like last week.
Marlborough Roads crews have
been back out today working in the Marlborough Sounds and on
other affected local roads.
Port Underwood Road from
Karaka Point to Whatamango Bay and Whatamango Bay to Rarangi
Monday, 26 July 2021, 11:29 am
Creative Waikato is calling for applications from groups
and individuals looking for cash to supercharge their next
creative project.
Hamilton’s Creative Communities
Scheme supports community arts initiatives that help grow
and promote creativity in Kirikiriroa.
Applications
are now open, with the funding round closing at 5pm on
Friday 27 August.
Creative Waikato, which administers
the fund on behalf of Hamilton City Council, is seeking
project applications focussing on at least one of the
scheme’s three criteria - access and participation,
diversity, or young people.
In the last funding round
more than 30 local projects received funding - from flax
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Monday, 26 July 2021, 11:44 am
Meredith Connell (MC), New Zealand’s largest litigation
firm, has invited five of its senior lawyers to join the
partnership.
The appointments would bring to 34 the
total number of MC partners across its Auckland and
Wellington offices. In addition to litigation, MC’s 160
lawyers offer the full range of legal services in more than
25 practice areas to clients across both the public and
private sectors in New Zealand, Australia, East Asia and
beyond. Women make up more than 60% of MC’s lawyers and
41% of its partners.
The firm is also well known for
its 100 years of service as Office of the Crown Solicitor at
Monday, 26 July 2021, 3:05 pm
Two board books for pre-school readers that have provoked
a storm in Europe will be coming to New Zealand and
Australia next month.
Hungary has fined a
bookseller that stocks
Bedtime, Not Playtime! and
Early One Morning as its parliament introduces a ban
on showing same-sex relationships in materials for people
aged under 18. The European Commission has responded with
legal action against Hungary for violations of the
fundamental rights of LGBTQI people, related to the new law
and the book banning.
Bedtime, Not Playtime!
and
Early One Morning feature rainbow families in
stories that simply show them living their daily