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Sir Howard Morrison was buried today. He died on Thursday at the age of 74. His tangi took place at Te Papaioura Marae in Rotorua. More than 6,000 people visited the marae to view the body and share the sadness with the family. A concert was held the
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Prices for petrol, electricity, and gas for cooking went up today to pay for the greenhouse gas they put into the atmosphere. Petrol went up 3 cents a litre to $1.79 a litre for unleaded petrol. Electricity and gas prices went up 3.3%. This is becaus
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We now have a summary of our weather for last year. NIWA (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) put this summary on their website. NIWA is a company which is owned by the government. Scientists at NIWA do research on climate, the
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Today, the Geographic Board decided that the town of Wanganui should be spelt with an h: Whanganui. This will make it the same as the river which flows through the town. The port is on the mouth of the river. The town is on the west coast of the Nort
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The H1N1 flu which is also called Swine flu is now causing some worry in New Zealand as well as the rest of the world. The World Health Organisation is now calling this a pandemic which means that it is now global and spreads within each country as w
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After the news that more than 100 people have died from swine flu in Mexico, New Zealand is now worried about travellers who have just returned from Mexico. Swine flu comes from pigs, not from eating pork. It comes at first from the animals but after
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When Helen Clark left Parliament, the Labour Party announced there would be a by-election in Mt Albert to find a replacement MP. Russell Norman, co-leader of the Green Party, and John Boscawen of the ACT Party both want to be the MP for Mt Albert. Th
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Paua poachers are fish thieves, says the Ministry of Fishing. They steal paua which should belong to everyone. Paua are shell fish which are called abalone in the US. You find them on rocks all around New Zealand, at low tide, usually in water just a
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ANZAC poppies are made of fabric. They represent the red poppies that were flowering when so many soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were killed at Gallipoli during World War I. Listen to April 24th 2010 for more background to ANZAC day. These p
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A Hong Kong company, Natural Dairy, wants to buy 16 dairy farms which belonged to the Crafar family. Thirteen of the farms are dairy farms and in total, the land is 8,815 hectares. The Crafar family went bankrupt and could not pay their debts of arou
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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
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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
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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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