Northland money experts dish out tips for post-holiday spending hangovers
15 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Whangarei Budgeting service senior financial mentor Dianne Clarke said paying off debt quickly was key to getting on top of finances. Photo / Tania Whyte
Whangarei Budgeting service senior financial mentor Dianne Clarke said paying off debt quickly was key to getting on top of finances. Photo / Tania Whyte
Jenny Ling is the Northern Advocate s feature writer and news reporterjenny.ling@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat
Have you splashed too much cash over the Christmas holiday period? Reporter Jenny Ling talks to the experts to help you get back on track.
Alice Te Punga Somerville cleans up the myth of Captain Cook s legacy
15 Jan, 2021 03:00 AM
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By: Alice Te Punga Somerville
Scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Somerville was asked to contribute a piece for a journal to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook s arrival in Aotearoa – that article is now published as Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, in the BWB Texts series. In this extract, Te Punga Somerville explores pushing back against Cook s global colonial legacy.
34. By pushing back
One of the projects of Indigenous people is to push back against colonial narratives. This is the bit I describe to my students as walking into a room on the television show Hoarders, getting a broom and a rubbish bag, climbing over all the junk until you get to the centre and making a space that reveals some of the floor underneath. If you started at the door and tried to work your way in, you would get discouraged by the sheer size of
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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Napier mayor Kirsten Wise promises War Memorial fully back in place by end of 2021
13 Jan, 2021 07:38 PM
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All aspects of the War Memorial are expected to be reinstated within the area of the Marine Parade war memorial site and forecourt. Photo / File
All aspects of the War Memorial are expected to be reinstated within the area of the Marine Parade war memorial site and forecourt. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
Napier s War Memorial is unlikely to be fully back in place by Anzac Day but it will be by the end of the year.
That s the promise from Mayor Kirsten Wise, 15 months into the job and determined to see a debate which has waged for almost five years does not continue into a sixth.