Fruit and vegetable prices increased almost 9 percent in the year ended December 2020, boosting overall food price inflation to 2.9 percent, Stats NZ said today. “In 2020 prices have been high for a variety of crops, including potatoes, courgettes .
It also listed Queenstown, Gisborne, Masterton, Lake Tekapo, and Napier where fire risk is increasing. Ministry of Environment lead scientist Drew Bingham, who was the lead scientist on the report, said what they had noticed in Gore was that it started from a very low number of very high and extreme danger days. While Gore recorded five VH+E fire danger days in 2019, it was much lower than Lake Tekapo which had 36 (VH+E) fire danger days. Although, the data did showed Gore was increasing the area still had a relatively low fire risk, Bingham said. The data showed that the fire risk was increasing between 0 and 1.7 days per decade on average from 1997 to 2019, he said.
Women have fared worse than men across key labour market measures since COVID-19 and alert level measures began impacting New Zealand’s labour market, Stats NZ said today. “Unemployment rates for men and women rose by similar amounts over .
Best of 2020: On the way to 50k: New statistics show Whanganui population growing
23 Oct, 2020 04:00 PM
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Whanganui s population has grown by 1.6 per cent in the past year. Photo / 123RF
The Whanganui Chronicle brings back some of the best premium content of the year for your summer reading enjoyment. Whanganui s population has topped 48,000 and is trending towards 50,000 in the next few years, according to new population figures released by Statistics New Zealand this week.
The figures show that in the year ending June 30, the population of the Whanganui District increased from 47,300 residents to 48,100, a jump of 800, or 1.6 per cent over the past year.
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