The road through Molesworth high country farm is now open for the summer. It closes again at Easter. Molesworth is in the northern part of the South Island. Molesworth is the biggest farm in New Zealand. It is 180,787 hectares. It has about 10,000 be

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

When New Zealand hosts the Rugby World Cup in 2011, which TV channel will show the games? We know that TVNZ does not have enough money to show the Commonwealth Games next year so does it have enough money for the Rugby World Cup? Both TVNZ and TV3 ma

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The Maori Party believes that the beach and sea were not mentioned in the Treaty of Waitangi so they belong to Maori just as they did before Europeans came to this country. In 2004, the Foreshore and Seabed Act said that all beaches up to the high ti

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During the weekend, 2 couples and their families invited the media newspapers, TV and radio to interview them about embryo donation. The first couple had two teenage boys and the second couple had a 3-month old baby girl. Couple 1s 16 year old son wa

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The Minister of Climate Change, Nick Smith, gave some strange information about our carbon emissions yesterday. (See September 23rd 2008 for information about the Emissions Trading Scheme.) Last year we put too much carbon into the atmosphere and wou

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The government is planning to take some Flu medicines off the shelves of chemist shops. Instead, people will have to go to their doctor and get a prescription if they want these medicines. The reason is that these medicines contain pseudoephedrine wh

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The government said that there will be new safety laws for adventure tourism. Nearly two years ago, a British tourist, Emily Jordan, aged 21, died when she was river-boarding in Queenstown. She was trapped under a rock and drowned. The company which

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Some New Zealand MPs who returned from the Copenhagen conference are disappointed. The Green Party MP, Jeanette Fitzsimons, said the conference was a failure because there were no legal promises. The conference decided to limit temperature increases

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Nearly everyone living in New Zealand must know about the All Whites win against Bahrain on Saturday evening. The stadium in Wellington, which holds 32,000 people, was full. About half a million people watched the game live on Sky and another 300,000

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The All Whites, New Zealands soccer team has a chance to play in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The last time a New Zealand team was part of the World Cup was in 1982. Soccer is a popular game to play in New Zealand, especially for school childr

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The Canterbury earthquake on Sept 4th was unusual because no one was killed. It is the only city in the world which has experienced a 7.1 magnitude earthquake without any deaths. Part of the reason for this is our building code. New buildings have to

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When votes for mayor of Wellington were counted on Saturday, Kerry Prendergast had won by 40 votes. She has been the mayor for 9 years. However, when the special votes were counted yesterday, Celia Wade-Brown won 176 more votes than Kerry Prendergast

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Firemen have spent the last three days putting out a bush fire in Mahia. Mahia is on the East Coast of the North Island, south of Gisborne. More than 100 fire officers and helpers with fire trucks and helicopters have been fighting the fire. The heli

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Mary Anne Thompson, the ex-head of Immigration New Zealand, was sentenced in the High Court today. She was given a fine of $10,000 and has to do 100 hours community service. She claimed on her CV that she had a PhD from the London School of Economics

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Prime Minister, John Key, has chosen Hekia Parata to replace Pansy Wong. Ms Parata has also been given three Associate Minister positions: Associate Minister of ACC, Energy and Resources, and Community and Voluntary Sector. She has only been an M

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An avalanche is a huge snow slide. It can kill skiers or climbers who are buried in this snow slide. The latest cold weather brought snow to mountains and other high places. Strong winds pushed much more snow onto some places and this could slide dow

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Today is Labour Day. Most of us celebrate the day by enjoying a holiday. However, the reason for Labour Day at first was to celebrate the eight-hour working day. The story about the eight-hour working day in New Zealand is about a carpenter called Sa

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Listen to March 3rd 2010 for background to this. The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, said there will be changes for young drivers to improve road safety. We already know that the government has planned to raise the driving age to 16 but this is

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The head of the International Airways Volcano Watch group, Peter Lechner who lives in Wellington, said today that their group has been warning about volcanoes for the last 10 years or more. There are nine volcanic ash warning centres around the world

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Air NZ showed what their new planes will look like inside. The CEO of Air NZ said that there have been many improvements for Business class passengers in the past few years but nothing for Economy class. The new planes, the Boeing 777-300 model, will

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