All Blacks Read ready for the captaincy pressure
It has been called the second most important job in New Zealand after the Prime Minister. Kieran Read prefers to say it is "one of the most important roles in New Zealand sport". Either way, the new...
View ArticleRecording a peoples suffering
Janna Hamilton's work for Oxfam includes missions to Africa and she now wants to keep the suffering of the Syrian people high on the news agenda. Photo / Supplied It's a long way from Tauranga - but...
View ArticleI owe NZ a lot says todays top laureate
Professor Albert Wendt says writing is in his nature. Photo / Dean Purcell For acclaimed Kiwi Pacific author Albert Wendt, writing is like breathing. "I write because I can't stop writing. It is in my...
View ArticleQueens Birthday Honours So many changes in a lifetime of firefighting
Brian Edwards served in the Auckland Fire Service for 49 years. Photo / Sarah Ivey Brian Edwards worked for nearly half a century fighting fires, work for which he has now been recognised in the...
View ArticlePatience key when looking for home
Mathew Ryan. Photo / Sarah Ivey Mathew Ryan recently rejoined the Auckland house-hunt - but says he won't be getting caught up in any scramble to secure a home. Mr Ryan has been going to open homes for...
View ArticleChicken lays out streaker
AJ the Chicken celebrates after downing the naked interloper. Photo / Getty Images Animal instinct has earned Andrew James hero status. In his duties as AJ the Chicken, the Highlanders' mascot, Mr...
View ArticleForgotten air veterans honoured
Ron Mayhill receives the Bomber Command Clasp from Wing Commander Lisa D'Oliveria. Photo / Brett Phibbs After 68 years, a group of war veterans have finally received the recognition they waited so long...
View ArticleQueens Birthday Honours Devoted environment champion
Conservationist Nganeko Minhinnick of Ngati Te Ata Waiohua today becomes a Dame. Photo / Dean Purcell Sitting in the sunshine at Tahuna Marae, which borders the Manukau Harbour, Dame Nganeko Minhinnick...
View ArticleQueens Birthday Honours Choreographer one of three in family to make list
Deirdre Tarrant founded the dance company Footnote. Picture / APNZ A leading choreographer who has been acknowledged in the Queen's Birthday Honours list is one of three generations in her family to...
View ArticleIts tragic that poor girl Factory owners lament
Victim Mihinui Tamiana was meant to be sleeping over at a friend's home, her grandfather says. Photo / Supplied A fire that ripped through a factory, killing a sleeping schoolgirl, is believed to have...
View ArticleAcclaimed writer ex-Speaker Tietjens recognised in Queens Birthday Honours
Source: Tagata Pasifika One of Pacific literature's most influential figures, a former Speaker of Parliament, and New Zealand Sevens coach Gordon Tietjens are among those recognised in the Queen's...
View ArticleQueens Birthday Honours 2013 Full List
The Honourable Robert Stanley Chambers (Deceased. This appointment took effect on May 20, 2013; Her Majesty's approval having been signified before the date of decease.) For services to the judiciary...
View ArticleQueen honours former Speaker Queenstowns top businessman
The new High Commissioner in London has received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Sir Lockwood Smith follows a long tradition in which Speakers of Parliament are honoured after they...
View ArticleSix new faces in All Blacks squad
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has injected six fresh faces in his squad to face France in three home Tests this month.The squad of 32 includes three uncapped Blues players - fullback Charles Piutau,...
View ArticleTributes flood in for dead Rotorua teen
Online tributes are flooding in for a teenage girl who died in a Rotorua fire yesterday. The victim - believed to be 14-year-old Western Heights High School student Mihinui Tamiana - was found after a...
View ArticleChristchurch streets safer with police prevention strategy
video She's legless. There is vomit on the young woman's clothing as police officers bundle her into a patrol car in Riccarton Rd late at night. She'll have a headache in the morning - not only because...
View ArticleBoy with rare illness lives life with a smile
Source: Fairfax Finlay Aitchison may have been born two organs short, but the 5-year-old is certainly not lacking in heart. The Christchurch boy is one of only 30 people in the world to be born without...
View ArticleCricket Martin Guptill goes great guns to secure series for New Zealand
New Zealand had completely outplayed his side as they claimed an unsurpassable 2-0 lead in their one-day international series at the Ageas Bowl in Hampshire. England fell 86 runs short of the...
View ArticleSue Kedgley Bring back school food guidelines
A healthy lunch means better learning and behaviour. Photo / Getty Images The Government's $1.9 million a year contribution to feeding breakfasts to kids in low-decile schools may be modest. But at...
View ArticleDeborah Hill Cone Pull your socks up wont change anything
One of the reasons given for kids-without-breakfast type dysfunction is that "families have never recovered from the economic reforms of the 1980s", according to a Whangarei counsellor. Not wanting to...
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