The Herald on the 26th June 2021 reported Babies with burning temperatures forced to wait on hospital floor. “Newborns with burning temperatures and mums who'd just given birth were forced to wait on the floor at Middlemore Hospital for hours as .
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:11 pm
Steve
Anderson CEO Foodstuffs South Island, Justin Vaudrey Owner
New World Durham Street, Chris Hunt Produce Manager New
World Durham Street.
To celebrate
Plastic Free JulyFoodstuffsis announcing it has begun
the process of removingsingle useplastic produce
bagsfrom across its supermarkets.
This decision
builds on other key sustainability initiatives such as Food
in the Nude, the removal of plastic checkout bags and
microbeads, and our BYO container programme. Sustainability
leadership is one of the four key social promises
Foodstuffs’ has made to New Zealand as part for our
commitment to be #HereforNZ, and the removal of single-use
plastic produce bags from all PAK’nSAVE, New World and
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:29 pm
Air New Zealand continues to adjust its trans-Tasman
schedule as a result of the 72-hour pause to quarantine-free
travel from Australia announced by the New Zealand
Government on Saturday 26 June.
All passenger flights
from Australia to New Zealand have been cancelled up until
11:59pm on Tuesday 29 June. A reduced number of passenger
flights will continue to operate to Australia, ensuring
customers currently visiting New Zealand from Australia can
return home. The airline is seeing a large volume of
customers cancelling travel to Australia in the next few
days, and due to this reduced demand will be rerouting
The pause in the travel bubble with Australia is having an immediate impact on hospitality and accommodation bookings, particularly in and around the South Island ski resorts, says Hospitality New Zealand. Chief Executive Julie White says members were reporting .
Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:27 pm
An additional 48 hours at COVID-19 Alert Level 2 for the
Greater Wellington region, including the Kāpiti Coast, is a
sensible precaution and the right call given that we
aren’t out of the woods just yet, says Kāpiti Coast
District Mayor K Gurunathan.
While no new community
transmission has been detected following last weekend’s
visiting positive case, confirmation that the visitor has
the highly transmittable Delta variant and their partner
returning a positive result after initially testing
negative, shows that moving back to Alert Level 1 would be
like declaring victory at halftime.
“I know we’ve