Letters: Tourism, self-control, Steve Braunias, borders and conversion therapy
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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International tourism will never again be as it was, says Tourism Minister Stuart Nash. Photo / Supplied, File
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Lost tourism
While Minister Stuart Nash s comments about the future of tourism in New Zealand may seem overly harsh, he is right in saying that tourism will not return to what it has been.
Visitors from Australia will probably be about the same level but the conditions that made possible large numbers from further afield are unlikely to return.
Many of these were young adventurers who could afford the ever-cheaper fares that competing airlines provided and there was little concern that they could get jobs back home when their trip had ended.
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Sideswipe: February 17: Give Way tree
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Way up Klondyke Rd. Out past Onewhero en route to Port Waikato the high way!
A hairy tale People on TikTok have been sharing some strange things they can do with their bodies as you can imagine it s an absolute horror show of people who are hyperflexible, and I say this as somebody who can spin my arm through 540 degrees. But then there was this: When I was 2 years old, my mom slammed a door shut on my finger and it ripped off the top piece of my finger. This was back in the 90s and I got a skin graft. For skin grafts, surgeons take a patch of healthy skin from another area of your body for use on the injured part. For most people, this would be an arm or a leg, but her medical team didn t want the scar to grow as she grew. So they took it from my groin area, she explained. My bikini line. I got home with the cast, I dunked my hand in the toilet and it got wet inside the cas
Vintage machines prepare to crank back into life for Taranaki machinery working weekend
16 Feb, 2021 07:51 PM
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There will be a variety of things to see and do on the day, with children s activities, food and plenty of displays for people to enjoy. Photo / Supplied
There will be a variety of things to see and do on the day, with children s activities, food and plenty of displays for people to enjoy. Photo / Supplied
Age isn t a barrier when it comes to getting the job done, says Lance Mullin, vice president of the Taranaki Vintage Machinery Club.
In fact, many old machines are still up to doing the work they were originally designed to do and some of them will be doing exactly that at the club s Vintage Machinery Working Weekend event next month.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Wi-Fi nightmare for Takapuna lockdown family
16 Feb, 2021 04:40 AM
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Locked down at home: Jaime Smith, 8 (centre), with her mum Maryanne (left) and big sister Eva, 11 (right). Photo / Dean Purcell
Locked down at home: Jaime Smith, 8 (centre), with her mum Maryanne (left) and big sister Eva, 11 (right). Photo / Dean Purcell
Eight-year-old Jaime Smith admits she got really stressed when she couldn t get back into her maths app at home on the second day of Auckland s latest Covid-19 lockdown.
Her older sister Eva, 11, couldn t get into a 9.20am online class meeting with her teacher.
The two girls and their parents, Darryl and Maryanne Smith, were all at home in the lockdown and were all trying to have online meetings at the same time.