Founded by Max Farndale 1947 - 2018
National Geographic is launching a multiyear ‘Planet or Plastic?’ campaign to encourage consumers to reduce single-use plastics.
Dunlop tyres on pallets being loaded at the dispatch dock onto a truck (is it snub nosed Bedford) at the Dunlop manufacturing plant in Upper Hutt -September 1970
The Manufacturers' Network on Budget 2018, released today by the Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, ticked some boxes for the economy, particularly around health, with some investment in infrastructure, education and R&D spending. There was, however, little else for the manufacturing sector to get excited about and not much focused on addressing productivity and skills shortages.
The 2018 Budget’s allocation of $1 billion towards R&D tax credits will be welcomed by exporting and manufacturing firms.
The Taxpayers’ Union is fuming that Minister for Research, Science and Innovation Megan Woods has broken her word and capitulated to Callaghan Innovation’s pressure to keep its precious corporate welfare grant schemes, rather than phasing them out in favour of the new R&D tax credit.
Top Hawke’s Bay apprentice Matthew Macaulay is a bright spark in the trades. From Hastings, Matt qualified as a horticulturist and then as a boilermaker before deciding to pursue an electrical engineering apprenticeship, studying at EIT.
Business class - the high stakes relaunch for Air New Zealand. NZHerald travel writer Grant bradley delves into the background behind what is called the most valuable piece of real estate on a commercial liner.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is in the market for a budgeting and forecasting tool to replace its current excel-based solution writes Sarah Putt for Computerworld.
When the opportunity arose, 13 Napier City Council staff immediately put their hands up to donate some of their sick leave balance to a company-wide “pot”.
The health risks of insecure work have been exposed during Select Committee submissions today on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill.
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
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