Apr 30 - Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has announced the appointment of diplomat Anton Ojala as New Zealand's next High Commissioner to Barbados. "New Zealand shares a warm friendship with Barbados based on long-standing connections through the Commonwealth and the United Nations," ...
Apr 30 - A short time ago the fuel company issued a statement saying petrol prices in New Zealand were "highly competitive". "We adjust our prices in response to local competition, particularly in instances where discounting has become unsustainable, which is what occurred in the lower North Island last year," ...
Apr 30 - New Zealand business confidence fell in April, matching a dip in consumer sentiment, as already downbeat firms scaled back expectations for their own trading activity.
Apr 30 - Leading food company Alliance Group will reward its committed shareholders with a distribution of $5.9 million in loyalty payments today.
The Reserve Bank today announced in October it will issue a colour circulating legal tender 50 cent coin to mark the centenary of Armistice Day.
Three Victoria University of Wellington students have created a start-up business they say could solve the capital’s parking problem.
The NZ Transport Agency says what’s believed to be a partially complete waka about 10 metres long has been uncovered during excavation work on the Ara Tūhono Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway project.
Curt phone call puts eminent New Zealand biologist and acerbic caricaturist on endangered species list….
Rod Oram reviews the Productivity Commission's landmark report on moving to a carbon-neutral economy on Newsroom. He finds a wealth of insight on the task ahead, but no analysis of what happens if we fail or what a radical disruption might look like.
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