He had been at the Napier plant a couple of weeks ago to speak about the consolidation, and from his visit thought "staff were probably relieved ... and more happy that the site will be expanding". "In Christchurch and Whanganui that was a much more ...
MetService has forecast a high of 20 degrees Celsius for Christchurch and Ashburton on Tuesday, along with sunny skies and developing northeasterlies. Over on the West Coast, Greymouth and Hokitika will have highs of 18C after sunny spells develop in ...
The Christchurch I grew up in was a coherent, legible city with a strong and reassuring sense of place. You knew at a glance what it stood for and from where it had come. The still largely 19th-century urban fabric linked us intimately with the city's ...
As part of his costume changes at Christchurch's Horncastle Arena April 29 and Auckland's Vector Arena May 1, he proudly sported a personalised jersey gifted to him by the country's All Blacks men's national rugby union team. "I'm a rugby fan," he told ...
There are further calls for DNA testing to be mandatory after it finally solved a 20-year-old Christchurch rape case. The Sensible Sentencing Trust is supporting a Christchurch Judge's call for a preventive detention report to keep a rapist behind bars.
The company will merge its woollen yarn spinning operations into a single hub in Napier and shift its felted yarn operation from Christchurch to Whanganui, closing the Christchurch plant. Cavalier's 108 Whanganui staff will lose their jobs, but have ...