新西兰英语 480 More snow

We have had an unusual winter storm for the last two or three days but it is not finished yet. Bitterly cold weather from the Antarctic has gradually spread over the whole country. First the far south of the South Island including the towns of Dunedi

新西兰英语 481 New Zealand Apples for Australia

Biosecurity Australia will now allow New Zealand to export apples to their country. However, Australian apple growers are not happy. To understand more about this, you need to listen to April 15th 2010. Australian apple growers do not want New Zealan

新西兰英语 483 Tax Avoidance

The Supreme Court today said that two orthopaedic surgeons owe the Inland Revenue more money. They each sold their medical practice to a company but they were the boss of the company. The company then employed them to do exactly the same job and paid

新西兰英语 484 Australian newspapers boycott Rugby World Cup

Most of the main Australian newspapers will not send photographers or journalists to New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup (RWC). These are newspapers owned by Murdoch and Fairfax. The Australian Associated Press is also planning to boycott the RWC. On

新西兰英语 485 World of Wearable Arts

The World of Wearable Arts show is on in Wellington at the moment. It finishes Saturday 10th September. Wearable Arts means art to wear and costumes are made from many different kinds of fabric including paper, plastic, or waste materials. The Suprem

新西兰英语 486 Happy Feet leaves zoo

Listen to August 3rd 2011 to hear more about the penguin Happy Feet. The Emperor Penguin, named Happy Feet, left the zoo last night. He is on board the ship, Tangaroa. This ship is used by scientists for studying plants and animals in the sea. It is

新西兰英语 487 SAS soldier killed in Afghanistan

Another New Zealand SAS soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the second one in a month. He was Lance Corporal Leon Smith, from Wellington, aged in his mid thirties. He is the 4th New Zealand soldier to die in Afghanistan. SAS means Special Air Ser

新西兰英语 488 Fishing quotas

The Minister of Fisheries controls the fishing quotas for commercial fishing. Yesterday the Minister said that the quota for Hoki will increase from 120,000 tonnes to 130,000 tonnes. This is because the Ministrys scientists say the numbers of Hoki in

新西兰英语 489 Pike River Mine Inquiry

For background to this, listen to September 6 2011. The second stage of the inquiry ended on Friday. This stage was looking at the Search and Rescue to find out why 29 miners died in the Pike River Mine last November. For the last three weeks we have

新西兰英语 490 Daylight Saving

If you live in New Zealand, remember to put your clock forward tomorrow morning. Officially the change to daylight saving time is 2.00am which becomes 3.00am but for most of us, we change our clocks before we go to bed or when we wake up. For example

新西兰英语 491 Record payout for dairy farmers

Fonterra, the huge dairy company, said that the payout to farmers for the year 2010 to 2011 will be a record high one. It was a good season, with mild weather in most places and high milk production from most farms. Fonterra is a cooperative company

新西兰英语 492 Measles in Auckland

Many Auckland people have had measles in the last four months. The numbers are increasing and the Medical Officer of Health thinks we may have a measles epidemic. So far, in Auckland, doctors know of 164 people who have had measles in the last four m

新西兰英语 500 Pike River Inquiry

Listen to July 13th 2011 to hear about the first stage of the inquiry. The second stage of the inquiry into the Pike River mine explosion began yesterday and will continue for three weeks. This stage will examine the Search and Rescue after the explo

新西兰英语 507 End of Parliament

Parliament finished this week to prepare for the elections on November 26th. When Parliament starts again, it will be a new government with some new MPs and many old ones. 14 MPs made farewell speeches because they are leaving. Our new government cou

新西兰英语 506 Rugby Win

Nearly every New Zealand adult, and many children too, watched the game last night. Most people watched on television, at home or in a bar. Many thousands watched outside in a fan zone. These were places like the waterfront (by the harbour) in Auckla

新西兰英语 505 Gas pipe break

A break in the Maui gas pipe in the upper North Island has caused very expensive problems. 5000 businesses and other buildings use this gas. They include hospitals, steel factories, universities, swimming pools, restaurants, hotels and milk factories

新西兰英语 504 Penguins in Tauranga covered in oil

Oil from the Rena continues to float on the sea and finish on the beaches around Tauranga. Many penguin eggs will not hatch this spring because wildlife rescue workers are saving the adult penguins instead. Wildlife workers are checking penguin nests

新西兰英语 503 Christchurch city shops open

Ever since the earthquake on February 22nd, the centre of Christchurch city has been closed. The only people allowed into that area were workers demolishing damaged buildings and engineers checking the safety of buildings that did not collapse. Then

新西兰英语 502 One year since earthquake

It is one year since the 7.1 earthquake woke Christchurch people at 4.30am. Since that day, there have been three other big earthquakes which were much worse. Nobody died as a result of the earthquake on September 4th 2010. Many buildings were badly

新西兰英语 501 Champion rowers

New Zealand rowers had their best ever results in the world championships which finished in Slovenia last night. They won nine medals four gold, one silver and four bronze. Mahe Drysdale won his 5th world championship in the mens single sculls. He ha