Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company co-founded by former New Zealand soccer star Tim Brown, has expanded into Canada, its fourth global market.
Mar 30, 2018 - More than 6000 people have sent in their responses to the plan for managing rubbish in Hastings and Napier over the next 10 years – so many that it is going to take a little longer than expected to fully process them.
The first kiwifruit has already been picked in New Zealand with orchards cleared to be harvested from the top of the North Island to the top of the South Island. Over 2,500 growers will be harvesting some 13,500 hectares of kiwifruit.
The Plastic Oceans Foundation has published a series of videos explaining how plastic waste gets into the oceans, breaks down into microplastics and enters the food chains.
The first runway at Istanbul New Airport (INA) is now ready for takeoff and landing. For the first time, runway number one, which is 3,750m long and 60m wide, has been lit up. INA has installed the world’s biggest and most sophisticated Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) at its first runway, featuring 34,183 LED lights.
The legislation enabling a fuel tax in Auckland to help finance transport infrastructure improvements may go further – as far as right around the country. But Transport Minister Phil Twyford says that that can’t happen during the current term of government.
If you’re a frequent long-haul traveler, you’re probably familiar with the spectacle of an airplane breakfast. About 90 minutes from London, or Shanghai or Sydney, the lights go on, and flight attendants come through the aisles banging coffee kettles, often offering a limp omelet, chewy sausage, and a stale, but warmed, croissant.
This 51-day day cruise spanning the length of the Mediterranean is a perfect reward for milestones big and small. Depart from Lisbon and sail down the Atlantic side of the Iberian Peninsula where you’ll learn terroir secrets and the long history of sherry aging and sample dry, bready “fino” and dark, nutty “oloroso” sherries in the countryside outside Cadiz, Spain and thats only the beginning . . .
Mar 29, 2018 - The latest Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) today show that tourism expenditure grew in all regions over the year ending February 2018.
MBIE’s manager of Sector Trends Mark Gordon says that there has been positive performance in several regions around the country.“The regions with the fastest growing tourism spend over the year ending February 2018 were the West Coast, which increased 12 per cent to $548 million, followed by Tasman, which increased 11 per cent to $317 million and Taranaki, up 11 per cent to $380 million,” Mr Gordon says.Chinese New Year fell in mid-February this year (rather than late January, as it was in 2017), contributing to high monthly growth rates compared with February 2017. Spending for this market followed the pattern of previous years, concentrated in Auckland, Otago and Canterbury with the percentage change from February 2017 for the Chinese market in these areas at 25 per cent, 88 per cent, and 80 per cent respectively.“Tourism spending in Kaikōura has also continued to recover, with tourism spending in the month of February 2018 almost double than in February 2017 and annual growth almost back to a positive figure,” Mr Gordon says.Mr Gordon says MBIE developed the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates in consultation with tourism industry representatives to create a better measurement of the value of tourism in the regions.“Tourism spending information for the regions helps inform investment and planning in the tourism industry by providing insight into where both domestic and international tourists are spending their money,” Mr Gordon says.MBIE has also today released new Regional Tourism Organisation (RTO) fact sheets. The factsheets were developed in consultation with Regional Tourism Organisations New Zealand (RTONZ) and the wider tourism industry. These factsheets provide a regional summary of tourism spend and accommodation statistics by RTO using publically available data from the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates and Accommodation Survey. They will be updated following each release, and are available here.A user guide providing information on how the estimates are calculated and how they should be interpreted is available here.View the full statistics from the Monthly Regional Tourism Estimates.
| A MBIE release | || march 29, 2018 |||
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242