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Lyttelton Tunnel Celebrates 50th Anniversary
From TVNZ News August 31st: Lyttelton Tunnel was closed for three hours this morning to mark the opening of its new control building. The tunnel is 50 years old and is recognised for its engineering...
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School Holiday Top 10 – Christchurch
School holidays are due very soon, September 27th to October 12th inclusive for most schools, to be vaguely exact. They can be a challenging time for parents, and you can either face up to it and plan...
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Cape Reinga To Bluff – A Photo Tour Of The Ultimate Kiwi Road Trip
New Zealand; Middle Earth; Paradise – whatever you want to call it, the best way to explore NZ is by taking a good old-fashioned road trip. And the ultimate Kiwi road trip takes you from Cape Reinga in...
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The Canterbury Tales, Part 1
The heart of the South Island, Canterbury is New Zealand’s largest region. It boasts a breathtaking 42,000 square kilometre expanse of tussock grasslands and lowland rivers, climbing from the Pacific...
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Exhibiting Ourselves
At the dawn of the 20th century, a pubescent British colony named New Zealand was struggling to establish a global identity, even perhaps a national one. That’s when someone had the idea of staging a...
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Stranger than Fiction: The Margaret Mahy Family Playground
Author of more than 100 picture books, 40 novels, and 20 collections of short stories, Margaret Mahy is probably New Zealand’s most celebrated children’s writer. She was awarded the Order of New...
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Labour Weekend Lineup
It’s been a long, grueling winter. With no national public holidays since Queen’s Birthday, we Kiwi’s have had an almost five month haul since the last long weekend. Not to worry, Labour Weekend...
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Lions Tour 2017: Christchurch & Dunedin
The 2017 Lions Tour kicks off this Saturday in Whangarei. In the name of thorough, watertight journalism, I’ll point out that New Zealand is rugby nation whether New Zealand likes it or not. We don’t...
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Road Closure Information While the majority of road closures in New Zealand are dealt with quickly, sometimes especially in the case of natural causes like flooding, snow and ice, slippage or rock...
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