Life in New Zealand

Southbound traffic travel the same route in reverse. Whangarei Leader, 14/3/18

“Since my body is made of ancestral DNA, my genetic disposition is meant to be seafaring and landfaring.”

Bite, 6/11/17

Beef cattle don’t walk in off the street demanding a piddle in the toilets at his Capitol Cinema in Te Puke, and they certainly don’t spit or whack you when he says no.

Weekend Sun, 1/12/17 Public notices. Temporary alcohol ban – Ed Sheeran

NZ Herald, 9/3/2018

Meditation and Buddhism –

Art of Positive Thinking. Five week long drop in class suitable for everyone.

Christchurch Mail, 25/1/18

Attached is an invitation for all interested clinical staff to participate in a national survey of quality and safety couture in DHBs …

Capital & Coast District Health Board staff newsletter

Bay. However, farmers and foresters have already developed sustainable management systems, which should better protect the land, its biodiversity and our waterways. Such systems should be publicised to enable individuals to plant the right trees in the right place at the right rate.

Native forests and species mustn’t be overlooked.

Our enlightened management systems for private beech and podocarp forests are almost unknown, but should be known and possibly reassessed in line with the views of most professional foresters who have visited this country. Elizabeth Orr (Waikanae) The Editorial refers to “slow-growing natives”. This notion comes about by comparing plantationgrown trees with those growing in forest conditions. There are many reasons why forest trees grow more slowly than even-aged stands.

In California, coastal redwoods are not usually planted in plantations. Why? Because they are “slow-growing natives”. An enterprising plantation owner decided to plant some anyway, and they grew about 14 times faster than trees in the forest.

In New Zealand, red beech in plantations grows almost as fast as radiata pine. Red beech is hard to establish; tōtara, however, is easy to grow and in a 40-year rotation would equal or outperform two 25-year pine rotations.

Why aren’t we growing more tōtara? Because the idea of “slow-growing natives” has become embedded, and the market model is too risk-averse. John Glasgow (Motueka)