Hosting the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural show, would to the faint-hearted be a mountainous task, but the new man at the helm plays the hefty workload down, taking it all…
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By Karen Pasco | Photos by Paul Terry With the residential building industry taking a 15 percent plunge last year, a Canterbury-based home building company which managed 38 percent growth…
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When art and fashion are woven around the human form it can entice, inspire and enrich. Spinning, twisting and twirling, this magical yarn has drawn audiences into an intricate sphere…
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During the past two years swimmer Sophie Pascoe has clockedup more than 5,700km in the pool – the equivalent of swimming the length of New Zealand three-and-a-half times. For mere…
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There’s nothing quite like a sick child to shatter your illusion about life being fair, a reality that close to 120,000 New Zealand children live in each year. This is…
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by Karen Pasco A Hawke’s Bay surfer with some sharp ideas has made accounting a simple task for small business owners worldwide. Xero founder Rod Drury talks about how, with…
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The Garden City is heading straight for a building boom; new plans, new buildings and new spaces are all on the cards. Workers and their tools are becoming a customary…
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by Corazon Miller For many years New Zealand mobile customers were caught between a rock and hard place, under what was considered a mobile telecommunications duopoly between Vodafone and Telecom.…
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By Corazon Miller Her first memory of cooking was standing by her mother’s side in a Hawke’s Bay kitchen back in the 1950s, helping pour fragrant vanilla essence into a…
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By Karen Pasco Almost 48 years ago David and Joan Ward returned early from their honeymoon to look into a business venture. The bakery and catering business they bought more…