Major construction project in Waimate highlights importance of skilled migrants
The country just experienced the largest drop in net migration ever, according to Statistics New Zealand. Figures released earlier this year show net migration provisionally estimated at 6,600 in the year ended March 2021 compared with 91,900 in the year ended March 2020, a drop of 85,400. Valentina Bellomo/Stuff Aoraki Stockfoods owner Ken Buckingham is nearing completion of a two-million dollar feed mill, a project that has seen workers from around the world employed. Automation Engineer Ben Pechard, of France, has lived in New Zealand for the past five years with his Japanese wife and tw...
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