His body was found shortly before 10pm that evening.
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ACC receives more than 1000 claims for work-related quad bike injuries each year, at a cost of about $12 million. (File photo) A week earlier, a woman in her 20s died when the side-by-side four-wheel-drive she was a passenger in rolled on a rural property at Waipukurau, about 20 minutes from Omakere. Provisional WorkSafe figures show there were seven quad bike deaths by September 28, 2020. Even without the full year counted it was the second-worst year for quad bike deaths since 2006. Only 2015, when there were nine deaths, topped it. Agriculture is one of New Zealand’s higher-risk industries with about 13,500 injuries a year and annual ACC claim costs of about $50 million.
THE National Sheep Association (NSA) welcomed the Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Victoria Prentis MP as guest speaker at the first of its new Breakfast Club webinars on Wednesday. Joining NSA chief executive Phil Stocker and NSA chairman Bryan Griffiths, Minister Prentis engaged with a large online audience discussing the current challenges faced by the UK sheep sector. The debate kicked off with an overview of the situation the sector finds itself in today, covering issues with export health certificates, lack of facilities at border control points for live animal movements, contentious challenges with the Northern Ireland Protocol and the overburdening of bureaucracy and paperwork associated with exports since January 1.
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Britain and the European Union have sorted out their divorce deal, but New Zealand beef and lamb exporters are unhappy.
Your playlist will load after this ad Come January 1st, farmers like Goerge Ritchie will be left unsure where their products end up – and how much its worth. Source: 1 NEWS
Restrictions on where the country’s prized cuts can be sent, and how much of them, has the industry concerned some exports will essentially have no value.
Around 80 to 90 per cent of the beef and lamb George Ritchie produces on his Wairarapa farm is sent overseas, but the regulations around where it ends up and its worth will be less clear come January 1.