Whanganui Regional Museum leadership role a timely homecoming for Bronwyn Labrum
8 Mar, 2021 03:00 AM
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New Whanganui Regional Museum director Bronwyn Labrum is loving her work and a welcome return to her home town. Photo / Bevan Conley
New Whanganui Regional Museum director Bronwyn Labrum is loving her work and a welcome return to her home town. Photo / Bevan Conley
Liz Wylie is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleliz.wylie@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Although she can ride her bicycle to work, Whanganui Regional Museum s new director Bronwyn Labrum said the city is buzzing . It s busy but still easy to get around which is really nice, Labrum said.
Retirement of Deputy Vice-Chancellor Finance and Technology Cathy Magiannis
Massey University Deputy Vice-Chancellor Finance and Technology Cathy Magiannis has retired from her role at Massey for family and health reasons, after six years with the university in her senior leadership role.
Cathy joined Massey University as a member of the senior leadership team in June 2015 from the Ministry of Education where she was deputy secretary then chief executive of Education Payroll. Her experience spans the public and private sectors; before joining the ministry she was CEO of Gareth Morgan Investments, held senior roles at the Inland Revenue Department, and worked at Treasury and Ernst & Young.
A sequence of three major offshore
earthquakes, including a magnitude
8.1 quake near the Kermadec Islands, triggered tsunami warnings
and evacuations along the east coast of New Zealand on
the morning of March 5.
By early afternoon, the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) lifted
the evacuation order but stressed that people should stay
off beaches and the shore.
All three earthquakes
happened along the Tonga
Kermadec subduction zone, where the Pacific tectonic
plate dives under and then sinks beneath the Australian
plate.
This subduction zone is the longest and
deepest such system on Earth. It spans from just north of
the East Cape, some 2600km to the north-east in an almost