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新西兰英语 09 New Zealand’s First Hijack Attempt

New Zealand had its first hijack attempt on Friday when a woman tried to make the pilot of a small plane fly her to Australia. The plane was flying from Blenheim to Christchurch, a distance of 250km. It was a small plane with only 7 passengers on boa

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 113 Government to buy new trains

When the Labour government bought Kiwi Rail last year (see May 10 2008) the National Party said this was a big mistake. However, now the National government has to find some money to improve the trains. Today, we heard that the government will spend

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 278 Heritage buildings

A heritage building is a building that is important to our history so we want to save it. It is usually a beautiful building. When a change is needed to that building for its use today, there can be a problem of how to keep its heritage value. Many c

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 424 Uni and polytech students in Christchurch

Students at the University of Canterbury had only one and a half days of classes before the earthquake on Feb 22nd. The university then closed for three weeks. A number of buildings had red stickers, including the two newest buildings Commerce and La

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 14 Concerto Competition

Saturday night was the final of the National Concerto Competition in the Christchurch Town Hall. This is an event where New Zealands young migrants often succeed. In the final, three of the best young musicians play a concerto with the Christchurch S

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 25 Government Buys Back Railways

Last Monday, the government announced that it will buy back the railways for $665 million. That sale includes the inter-island ferries that sail between Picton and Wellington. We have to say buy back because the government used to own the railways bu

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 337 Landslide on Road and Rail to Christchurc

A landslide near Kaikoura blocked the road and railway from Picton to Christchurch on Friday night. While small landslides on the narrow road near Kaikoura are quite common, this is the biggest one ever in this area. It is about 100m long and covers

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

新西兰英语 331 Earthquake hits Canterbury

A strong earthquake hit Canterbury just after 4.30 this morning. It was 7.1 on the Richter scale. This is about the same as the Haiti earthquake but very fortunately no one was killed. Two people are in hospital with serious injuries. The population

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语
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