Новости за 14.09.2016

Vodafone New Zealand Limited has today been fined $165,000 in the Auckland District Court after pleading guilty to making false price representations in breach of the Fair Trading Act.

New Zealand First is renewing its call for a full Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s fisheries management following recent talk of limits on recreational fishing.

Stuff reports: Five people have been prosecuted for illegally washing windscreens at Christchurch intersections since a bylaw allowed police to prosecute offenders. After several reports of anti-social behaviour associated with the window cleaners, the Christchurch City Council voted unanimously in October last year to give police authority to seize windscreen washers’ equipment and prosecute them […]

Sept. 14 (BusinessDesk) - Fonterra Cooperative Group held a grudge against farmers who had left and offered them a worse deal than the rest of its suppliers as an act of revenge when it bought a failed Canterbury dairy business out of receivership, ...

Residents have their say at Love The Bay Community Space, and in series of workshops

On tomorrow’s episode of Police Ten 7, new information comes to light in the disappearance of Palmiro Macdonald.

Auckland City Police are investigating the carjacking and assault of an elderly woman at lunchtime today and are appealing for sightings of two cars.

Remembering NZ soldiers in WWI Battle of Somme Caption: Scene from the Battle of the Somme

The Maintenance Engineering Society’s 2016 SKF National Maintenance Engineering Conference is returning to Hamilton’s Claudelands Showgrounds this November with more new developments to add value to engineers assembling from all around the country.

A public meeting set for Thursday evening will press the case for rail to the North Shore. Organisers are asking North Shore residents to turn up and demonstrate their support for a high capacity electric rail connection across the Waitemata otherwise, ...

Plunket’s new Chief Executive Amanda Malu says the greatest social good is achieved by investing in a child’s earliest years - and that by investing in our children, we are investing in our future.

Hexalogy is an exhibition showcasing the art works of six Art Academy students, opening on the 22nd September at the Geoff Wilson Gallery. The title is not only suggestive of the number of students exhibiting, but is also illustrative of a sense of cohesiveness ...

Sept. 14 (BusinessDesk) - The government's agreement to pay for half of Auckland city's proposed 3.4 kilometre inner city rail link will help ease the city's funding pressures, the Local Government Funding Agency says.

If left unchanged, the Government’s proposed new Fire and Emergency NZ Bill (FENZ) could result in a significant increase in fees for retirement village residents and aged residential care home operators, many of whom are not for profit.

The Chair of WorkSafe New Zealand, Professor Gregor Coster announced today that Nicole Rosie will be the agency’s new Chief Executive.

The industries most reliant on immigration are the worst offenders when it comes to meeting their most basic employment obligations, says Labour’s Immigration spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway.

Wednesday 14 September 2016 BePure Live Well Festival Comes to The Cloud 14 September 2016 – New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) have developed a new lifestyle and wellbeing festival that will take place on October 15 and 16 at The Cloud on ...

Doug Bailey writes at Stuff: A few years ago, former British Foreign Secretary, now Lord, Douglas Hurd, spoke to a Wellington audience about the erosion of western parliamentary democracy. One cause of that decline, he said, was the raw and untested character of an increasing number of MPs. “Where once the ladder to Parliament lay at the end of […]

Te Pou Matakana Chairperson Merepeka Raukawa-Tait called the Prime Minister’s announcement of new legal powers to prosecute domestic violence offenders a ‘positive step’ to addressing the generational issues of harm.

Tick for Kids* is calling on all candidates in the local government elections to prioritise children and commit to policies that will improve child wellbeing.

The National-led government once again is ignoring the need for alcohol reform to combat family violence in New Zealand.

Sept. 14 (BusinessDesk) - Goodman Property Trust, the NZX-listed commercial and industrial property investor, is to buy two adjoining industrial sites in the Henderson suburb of Auckland for $18.9 million.

Francis Maiava receiving his award for top student in the Master of International Security programme from Carolyn Tremain (chief executive and Comptroller for the New Zealand Customs Service) and Professor Rouben Azizian, Director of the Centre ...

The country’s independent electricity generators have joined business, farming, local government and electricity sector participants who have expressed support for a legal challenge to the Electricity Authority. Trustpower is in the High Court in ...

It’s time to repeal a law that sanctions sole parent families for not identifying the name of the other parent, Labour’s Social Development Spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni says.