Palmerston North volunteers ensure hospice patients enjoy flowers and fragrance
Every room in Palmerston North's Arohanui Hospice looks out into the extensive gardens that surround the facility.
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Every room in Palmerston North's Arohanui Hospice looks out into the extensive gardens that surround the facility.
Normal text size Very large text size Since December, Coonamble farmer Allan Inglis has been mired in a battle against a plague of mice that threatens to engulf much of NSWâs Central West grain belt. Elevated mouse populations have been recorded from central Queensland down to northern and central NSW and into western Victoria. The boom has been fuelled by drought-breaking rains, bumper crop yields and an unseasonably mild winter. The mice are wreaking financial havoc, too. Inglis says that by winter, he will be up to $500,000 out of pocket. Coonamble broad acre farmer Allan Inglis clean...