300+ positions available: Volunteering Hawke s Bay needs you
1 Feb, 2021 06:40 PM
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One of the biggest volunteering categories is organisations looking for drivers. Photo / Warren Buckland
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
Do you want to be a volunteer? There s 300 vacancies for someone like you across Hawke s Bay as the sector soars back after Covid uncertainty.
There are normally 200 to 220 positions listed on the Volunteering Hawke s Bay site, but this has grown to more than 300 in the last few weeks, manager Leanne Collins said.
While there had been a dip in the number of volunteer opportunities in the months after the nationwide lockdown, it seemed the opposite was true for the start of this year, and people with New Year s resolutions to do good are starting to take notice.
Tutira giant: Monster carp caught on a fly and released in Hawke s Bay lake
1 Feb, 2021 01:57 AM
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Ashley Perfect, centre, with the giant grass carp caught on a fly and released back into Lake Tutira. Photo / Supplied
Ashley Perfect, centre, with the giant grass carp caught on a fly and released back into Lake Tutira. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
A monster 1m grass carp is back lurking in Lake Tutira after being released by an angler who hadn t fished the lake for a decade because it stank.
Ashley Perfect, a 52-year-old Otaki College biology teacher, landed the carp in a 45-minute early-afternoon struggle while fishing with wife Jody and their children on January 21.
Whangārei s MD Gallery making history as Northland first
31 Jan, 2021 11:00 PM
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Artist duo Rosie Parsonson and Richard Darbyshire with MD Gallery curator Megan Dickinson are heading to the Auckland Art Fair next month representing Northland. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Artist duo Rosie Parsonson and Richard Darbyshire with MD Gallery curator Megan Dickinson are heading to the Auckland Art Fair next month representing Northland. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Reporter for the Northern Advocate jodi.bryant@nzme.co.nz
A working collaboration stemming back to art school days has culminated in a Northland art gallery creating history as the first from the region to exhibit in the Auckland Art Fair.
Market close: New Zealand market recovers early loses on signs of offshore gains
1 Feb, 2021 04:47 AM
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With Auckland closed for its anniversary, trading on the NZX was light, with the market driven by nerves caused by volatile trading in the US on Friday. Photo / Bloomberg
With Auckland closed for its anniversary, trading on the NZX was light, with the market driven by nerves caused by volatile trading in the US on Friday. Photo / Bloomberg
With Auckland on holiday the New Zealand sharemarket drifted lower on the back of a weak end to the week in the US, despite recovering late in the day on positive signs from Asia.