Local themes common for April Fools’

it could just rename another street after the Anzacs, with Ethel Benjamin and Emily Siedeberg Pl among options.

One commenter said: ‘‘what a bloody insane idea ANZAC MEANS EVERYTHING Ed Sheeran here today gone tomorrow WAKE YOU DUMMYS.’’

The Dunedin NZ Facebook page, which is run by Enterprise Dunedin, followed the same theme. It said work had started on a Pink mural on the back of Sammy’s, after the success of the Sheeran artwork.

The singer Pink is scheduled to perform in the city in September.

The Royal Albatross Centre Facebook page requested volunteers to help wash some of its chicks which had reportedly been dyed orange ‘‘by an unknown source’’.

Volunteers would have to bring large bottles of shampoo and hairdryers to the colony, it said.

‘‘Albatross source Ima Prank’’ said it appeared to be part of the #PaintTheTownEd craze sweeping Dunedin.

The University of Otago broke from the Sheeran theme, saying on social media that the institution had replaced the analogue clock in its clock tower with a digital one.

It posted pictures of the clock with a digital timepiece.

‘‘The university is excited to move with the times and have a campus clock that shows we are part of the digital age,’’ it said on its social media page.

Further afield, the Queenstown Lakes District Council announced on social media an ambitious $14 billion project using lava from Earth’s core to

heat Lake Wakatipu to ‘‘make it more agreeable to swimmers and bathers all year round’’.

It was part of a wider strategy to warm up all three of the district’s major lakes over the next two years, it said.

Nationally, The New Zealand Herald reported Eden Park would become the grazing spot for 10,000 Perendale lambs.

Newlyappointed Eden Park Trust chief executive Nick Sautner said the key to the commercial success of the venue was diversification, the

reported.