Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 3:24 pm
New Zealand and Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministers, Nanaia
Mahuta and Dinesh Gunawardena, have welcomed the opening of
the New Zealand High Commission in Colombo next
week.
The Foreign Ministers, who met virtually
yesterday, spoke about the opening of the High Commission as
a major milestone in the bilateral relationship. Both
Ministers stressed that New Zealand s diplomatic presence in
Sri Lanka is a further affirmation of the significance of
the steadily expanding bilateral engagement in recent
times.
“Our countries and our peoples have been good
friends for over 70 years, including through New Zealand’s
early commitment to the Colombo Plan in 1950,” said Nanaia
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 4:51 pm
More farmer groups in Guadalcanal Province took delivery
of farming equipments under the Export Crop Programme 2021
of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
(MAL).
They are Hauvalisi (Babanakira) Kava farmers
association in the remote South Guadalcanal and Numbu noni
farmers group in North East Guadalcanal vicinity and two
noni farmers from Gilbert Camp settlement. The delivery was
done through the MAL Guadalcanal Extension Office
recently.
The freshly introduced programme, “Export
Crop Programme 2021” replaced the previous Sustainable
Economic Growth and Export Strengthening 2020 (SEGES)
Programme as aligned to government redirection policy,
however, continue to maintain similar support to farmers,
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 3:20 pm
New Zealand Health Food Company Ltd (NZHFC) has been
fined $377,000 after pleading guilty to engaging in conduct
that was liable to mislead the public about the origin of
ingredients in its royal jelly supplements.
The
combination of phrases and images used by NZHFC to market
its royal jelly products gave the impression that the
products were from New Zealand when the key ingredient came
from China.
The Commerce Commission’s investigation
showed that from December 2015 to December 2020, NZHFC made
various representations on product labelling, the
company’s websites, social media, and through other
marketing channels such as email newsletters,
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 6:13 pm
It is very disappointing to see Labour vote against a
Bill that would make work easier for Police Officers in New
Zealand as they endeavour to track down stolen goods,
National’s MP for Port Waikato Andrew Bayly
says.
“Following discussion with police, I proposed
a Bill to allow police to easily obtain details of
transactions from second-hand dealers. Dealers are already
required to collect data on transactions and all the Bill
required was that the information be provided to police in a
machine-readable form.
“Currently police have to
spend a massive amount of time driving to each second-hand
Area Response Manager Senior Sergeant Steve
Nicoll:
Over the last two days Hawke’s Bay Police
have arrested a number of people involved in ongoing
property crime in Napier.
Following a spate of vehicle
thefts in Napier, proactive patrols have been focussed on a
number of areas in an effort to deter any further offending
and identify those responsible.
At around 1:30am on
Tuesday morning, a patrol noticed two youths attempting to
break into a vehicle on McDonald Street, Napier. The pair
were arrested and charged with attempted unlawful taking and
appeared in Hastings Youth Court.
One of the pair is