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Gulls culled . . . Southern black-backed gulls causing havoc in the Waitaki Valley have forced the Department of Conservation to control their numbers. PHOTO: SUPPLIED/DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION A threat to nationally endangered birds in the Waitaki Valley forced the Department of Conservation (Doc) to step in last week. Doc undertook control work to remove southern black-backed gull colonies from the Waitaki River, east of Kurow, as the gulls were preying on black-fronted tern and wrybill colonies. There were “unnaturally high numbers” of the gulls in the lower Waitaki and the colonies t...

“We rub along,” he said. Gwyn, now 98, first met her husband to be when she was nannying her brother’s children in Waimate and Don lived around the corner. The couple’s youngest daughter Donette​ Fargher​ said the family story is that they met on the street corner. Supplied Don and Gwen Johns married at Chalmers Church in Timaru on February 16, 1946. They kept in touch when Don served as a jeep driver in North Africa and Italy during the war while Gwyn was in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) feeding personnel at the Wigram Air Force base in Christchurch. They became en...

Put simply, says Taylor, the RMA is at the heart of national strategy. Its job is to set the balance between our economic ambitions and environmental limits. That means whatever replaces it will affect everything. Guy Salmon, of Nelson’s “blue-green” think tank, Ecologic – a member of the RMA’s original independent panel 30 years ago – says it could be New Zealand’s true coming of age moment. supplied The Resource Management Act: After many patches and revisions, finally time to just replace it. The country might get around the table and figure out how to actually live withi...

JOHN BISSET/STUFF Descendants of Te Maihāroa who led Te Heke, the migration to Te Ao Mārama, Ōmārama in the 19th century, discuss the impact of land loss on their iwi Waitaha. The stories of Parihaka, Bastion Point and Ihumātao have been widely reported throughout the history of colonisation. But few know of the peaceful Waitaha stand against the Crown 143 years ago in South Canterbury, its legacy still impacting on iwi members today. Esther Ashby-Coventry reports. In 1877, Te Maihāroa, a Waitaha prophet, led his people on a two-month migration, referred to as Te Heke, to reclaim ance...

Sarjeant Happenings: Wai: The Water Project 25 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read The Water Project at Sarjeant on the Quay, works range from digital to painting and sculpture. Photo / Supplied Whanganui Chronicle By: Helen Frances Three years ago 11 artists and Ashburton Art Gallery director, Shirin Khosraviani, went on a four-day trip in a mini van around the Canterbury Plains. Thirteen artists in all had been invited to "create works of art which honoured, questioned and brought to light our intricate and – at times – troubled relationship with water". Out of the trip emerged the art...