Fresh start in Te Aroha for 42 workers 10 August 2016 Two years ago, Anthony Pearce was an angry 18-year-old who had just finished a lag in jail and hated the world he was released back into. Born and raised in the small Bay of Plenty town of Kawerau, he was living off a weekly benefit […]
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Kawerau reclaims its place in the property sun 15 August 2016 One of the brightest property hotspots in the country right now isn’t near Auckland, or on Tauranga’s sunny coast. It’s deep in the central North Island, the forestry town of Kawerau in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Valuation service QV estimates that Kawerau’s property
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The Kawerau Urban Food Forest (KUFF) was approved after the team behind it pitched the project to Kawerau District Council earlier this month. Neighbourhood of Healthy Homes co-ordinator Hannah Edwardson said the project’s aim was to establish a two-hectare forest of food-bearing trees and shrubs on a portion of Monika Lanham Reserve. A community garden
WEIGH-IN: Vaina Drummond, Dion Russell, Big 3 and individual winner, Charlie Drummond, TJ Parker and Mya Nelson at the Kawerau Ex-Royal Navalmen’s Club. D4175-25 TE ARAROA hunters won the top prize at the annual Kawerau Big 3 competition last week with their combined catch of 151 kilograms. The team, Tee Roa, made up of Dion
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First-year Chinese speech students win competition 31 August 2016 WINNERS: Tarawera High School students Majean Rogers and Nikia Davis are winners of a Chinese speech competition held in Rotorua. Photo supplied AFTER winning a Chinese speech competition last week, Tarawera High School students Nikia Davis and Majean Rogers have made fluency a goal. Seventeen schools
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Container terminal research two-thirds done 31 August 2016 The project is assessing the proposed container terminal’s economic and logistical feasibility. If a terminal is developed, it will open up opportunities for Kawerau businesses and the wider Eastern Bay, with increased connectivity allowing them better access to customers. The proposed terminal was first suggested in 2012,
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Drilling of the production well and two injection wells has been completed at the Te Ahi O Maui geothermal project, near Kawerau. Project manager, Ben Gibson, said today that the drill rig and associated equipment have now completely demobilised from site, where they had been working since May. The drilling process targetted known sources of
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WITH 460 people in attendance, the 2016 Horizon Business Excellence Awards celebrated the innovation, success and leadership of Whakatane’s business community at the Whakatane War Memorial Centre on Saturday. Twenty-four businesses were nominated for the awards held every second year. The Horizon Supreme Business Award winner was Kawerau’s Mainstream Engineering, which also won the Excellence
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Quality entries in woodskills 30 September 2016 JINKET: Des Kendrick’s Logging Jenkit. D4294-34 THE National Woodskills Competition at Kawerau has been touted as the only one of its kind in the world. In its 26th year, the 2016 exhibition last weekend included everything from giant sculptural carvings to tiny, intricately detailed art pieces. National Woodskills
Asaleo Care, a New Zealand tissue paper manufacturer and producer of Tork products has become the first in its field in Australasia to achieve certification for unprecedented transparency of a product’s life cycle. Tork Professional Hygiene toilet paper and hand towel are the first hygiene products with Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) in Australasia. They are
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