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Statistics New Zealand gave the Consumer Price Index figures (CPI) yesterday. Stats NZ staff visit 3,000 shops all around New Zealand to check prices. The figures for the June quarter show how much prices have changed since March. The CPI is up 1% fr...
Orewa High School in Auckland expects all year 9 students next year to have their own iPad, netbook or other mobile device like a Smart phone. The school says the most suitable is the iPad which costs between $800 and $1,000. The reason that the scho...
Much of New Zealand experienced some severe weather yesterday and today. Snow storms moved up from Southland, reaching Dunedin and Christchurch later yesterday. Snow continued to fall all night. Christchurch people woke up to a winter wonderland abou...
There was too much snow on Mt Lyford in North Canterbury yesterday. Last night 250 skiers had to stay on the mountain in the day lodge. The road was closed because of high winds and the risk of avalanches from so much snow. It was too dangerous for c...
When a company gives a name to a product this is a trademark. It means that no other company can use the same name. Recently two companies have been in the news, trying to protect the name of their product. One is Fonterra, the biggest dairy company...
Christchurch City Council has been unable to buy any insurance because of the risks of more earthquakes. From today, if there is another big earthquake which causes damage to underground pipes, there will be no insurance to repair them. The city has...
The Prime Minister, John Key, is visiting three cities in India this week, New Delhi, Agra and Mumbai. Yesterday he and his wife had a private visit to the Taj Mahal and today he met the Indian Prime Minister, Monmohan Singh. The main purpose of the...
The result of the by-election in Te Tai Tokerau electorate yesterday was a win for Hone Harawira. Kelvin Davis, Labour, was second with 867 fewer votes than Hone. The Maori Party candidate was third. Hone says this is a win for the new Mana Party but...
An Emperor Penguin managed to swim 4,000 km from Antarctica to New Zealand. A woman found the penguin on Peka Peka Beach about 40 km north of Wellington last Monday. The last time an Emperor Penguin was found in New Zealand was in 1967 on a beach in...
The Prime Minister, John Key, said today that the government will buy 5000 houses that have been badly damaged after the earthquakes in Christchurch. This is because the land in those areas is not safe for houses. These houses are mostly beside the A...
Today is the shortest day of the year for the Southern Hemisphere. In New Zealand, we have nearly 9 hours of daylight today to be exact, 8 hours, 56 minutes and 24 seconds at latitude 43 degrees south. Tomorrow will be 3 seconds longer. Last night wa...
Last week, the Department for the Environment made a report about using 1080 poison in the forests. The head of this department, Dr Jan Wright, studied the use of 1080 and decided that it was the best solution to the problem of animal pests. New Zeal...
Christchurch had more small after-shocks today. Two of them were over 4.0 on the Richter scale. Yesterday three after-shocks were 4.4 or 4.5. Since the big earthquake on September 4th last year, the province of Canterbury has had 7350 after-shocks bu...
Suburbs in the east of Christchurch were very badly affected again after Mondays two earthquakes. Many houses lost underground services like water, power and sewerage and still today about 50,000 people have no water and cannot use their toilets. Som...
On June 4th, a volcano in southern Chile erupted, sending volcanic ash into the air. The large particles of ash soon dropped to the ground but the small particles were carried, high in the air, by the westerly wind to Australia and New Zealand. This...
