Press Release – Office of the Clerk

QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS

Child Poverty—Government Actions to Address and Measuring Numbers Affected Read more »

Press Release – Dunedin City Council

Here’s Your Chance to be a Rock Star!

Dunedin (Tuesday, 10 December 2013) – If you’re a musician and can blend old and new, here’s an opportunity for you. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Hon Hekia Parata

Minister of Pacific Island Affairs

10 October 2013 Media Statement
PM’s Pacific Youth Awards winners announced Read more »

Press Release – Department Of Internal Affairs

Child sex abuse pictures bring jail term
A 49-year-old Auckland beneficiary was jailed today for 10-and-a-half months after he pleaded guilty to 30 charges of possessing objectionable publications – pictures of children being sexually exploited or abused. Read more »

Press Release – Historic Places Trust

December 10

MEDIA RELEASE

Auckland Passport – on sale now Read more »

Press Release – The Asthma Foundation

Media Release
Asthma Foundation

Embargoed until 5.00am 9 December 2013 Read more »

Press Release – Triathlon New Zealand

8 December 2013

For immediate release from Triathlon New Zealand, for further information visit www.triathlon.org.nz andwww.triseries.co.nz Read more »

Press Release – Reclaimed Christmas Festival

Media release

9December 2013

‘The Reclaimed Christmas Forest’ comes to Aotea Square with a key recycling message for the festive season Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council

Media release
10 December 2013
The music of sound, the magic of place

Artist Tim Prebble has been on a mission over the last six weeks. The Auckland Council’s regional parks artist in residence has been out in the Waitakere wilds at all hours of the day and night, capturing the calls of the kokako, tui and morepork. Read more »

Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey

In light of the reiteration of the incorrect assertion that Parliament that would ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by Stephen Jacobi on Morning Report today, I am reissuing the following explanation and associated press release from December 2012. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council

10 December 2013

Alcohol law changes begin next week

Major changes to New Zealand’s drinking laws come into force next week in an aim to reduce alcohol harm. The reforms, introduced under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act (SSAA) 2012, focus on changing our drinking culture through the responsible sale and supply of alcohol. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council

Dare to Explore with the children’s summer reading adventure

Dare to Explore the world this summer at Auckland Libraries. Kids can go on an adventure and see the wonders of the world, visit ancient civilisations and design a tree hut. Read more »

Press Release – NZTA

Community information day on SH2/SH25 intersection plans this Friday

An information day will be held this Friday 13 December 2013 to give the community and the wider public an opportunity to provide comment on the proposed plan to upgrade the current Highway 2 (SH2) and State Highway 25 (SH25) intersection, north of Mangatarata, to a roundabout. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Transport Agency

10 December 2013

Community information day on SH2/SH25 intersection plans this Friday

An information day will be held this Friday 13 December 2013 to give the community and the wider public an opportunity to provide comment on the proposed plan to upgrade the current Highway 2 (SH2) and State Highway 25 (SH25) intersection, north of Mangatarata, to a roundabout. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Rugby League

PRESS RELEASE

Kieran Foran Named Kiwis Player of the Year 2013

Auckland, New Zealand December 9, 2013 – Kiwis five-eighth Kieran Foran was tonight named winner of New Zealand Rugby League’s supreme award. As NZRL Player of the Year Foran is also the second recipient of the Steve Watene Memorial Medal, which was first awarded to the Player of the Year (Jeremy Smith) in 2012. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Trial to reduce blood pressure by ‘zapping’ nerves

A new cardiac procedure for people whose blood pressure remains high even when on blood pressure lowering medicines will be part of a $1.2 million two year trial starting early next year. Read more »

Press Release – NZ Transport Agency

Alice brings Xmas cheer to typhoon victims

The NZ Transport Agency says workers at Auckland’s Waterview Connection project raised almost $4000 for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines through an on-line auction featuring Alice, the project’s giant tunnel boring machine. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council

Gulf revival begins
The first trial plots have been established in an ambitious project to revive the Hauraki Gulf.

Seven tonnes of green-lipped mussels were deposited off eastern Waiheke Island in the past week and checks by divers have confirmed their successful positioning on bare seafloor. Read more »

Press Release – Colt Products and Systems New Zealand

10 December 2013

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Colt Products & Systems produces the world’s largest Penthouse Louvre: ASB North Wharf Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party

Reserve Bank bows to inevitable over new builds

The Reserve Bank has bowed to the inevitable today by exempting new builds from its Loan to Value Ratio lending limits, Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says. Read more »