New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Complimentary pyjamas and seats which fold out to a two-metre long bed are being offered by Australian airline Qantas to woo passengers on to its newest aircraft. Qantas has ordered 20 of the 560-tonne Airbus A380 aircraft, the...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Passengers coming into Auckland this morning had another frustrating trip after a signal failure stopped trains on all lines coming into Britomart Station. Passengers have told nzherald.co.nz that a voice over the loud speakers...
hitting metal with a hammer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
No one saw this coming… except we did. Now frankly the Family Party have utterly failed to impress me as anything other than a party of an extreme fundy loons who let their personal belief system supersede all other considerations and I would no more vote for them that I would any other extremist religious group. However [...]
The Informed Traveler (Free subscription) | yesterday
This fierce-looking insect (pictured at right) is getting a VIP welcome at Auckland’s swanky Langham Hotel. As part of its “Guests of the Earth” environmental program, the five-star property recently unveiled a “Wetarium”– New Zealand’s first weta habitat– for the Auckland Tree Weta. The only New Zealand hotel to have achieved Green Globe certification through [...]
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
A man in his 40s was taken to Auckland Hospital after he was seriously assaulted in a house in the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert about 5.40pm last night. Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Cramer said today police had spoken to several...
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
BROTHERS Peni Finau and Osea Vakatalesau have hit a new high in their soccer career by signing with top New Zealand football club, Auckland City.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Barfoot and Thompson says its residential property sales in Auckland increased during September. It says 559 houses were sold, up from 502 in August, which it says is in line with normal expectations of a springtime lift in the...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
One of Auckland's big real estate dealers says it has picked up on some spring optimism in the housing market. Barfoot & Thompson says it made 559 sales in September, compared with 502 in August. This is still well down on the...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
“..Auckland’s civic planners do not often get things right, and on the rare occasions that they do, they have a dismaying tendency to revisit the plan and ruin it. Right now they are contemplating an alteration to the Viaduct Harbour that would drastically reduce its appeal. They propose to turn the front of the area into [...]
Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Auckland's defence of the Air New Zealand Cup is over. The reigning champions crashed out of the competition on the back of a shock 21-13 defeat to Northland at Eden Park on Sunday."
Brier Dudley's blog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Consolidation has come to the trade promotion management software industry: Kirkland-based Kineticsware is announcing that it acquired Flintfox, a big TMP player based in Auckland, N.Z. Flintfox's software will broaden the Kineticsware suite, and Flintfox Chief Executive Mike Ridgway will become managing director of Asia Pacific for Kineticsware. The combined company will have 141 customers and operations...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's going to be a difficult few weeks for the 3000 or so people who might be called serious Auckland rugby fans. Ditto the 2000 North Harbour diehards. Do you chuck in the towel, and join the city's masses in being oblivious of...
22dropout.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hospital passes or golden opportunities? Either way you look at it, someone has got to pull Auckland and North Harbour out of their mire and there doesn't appear to be a shortage of coaching contenders.
Market Wire - Transportation and Logistics: Maritime (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
KIRKLAND, WA (MARKET WIRE) Kineticsware announced today that it has acquired Flintfox International Ltd., a leading provider of trade promotion management (TPM) solutions headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. The acquisition will enable Kineticsware to provide a new generation of full lifecycle TPM solutions to consumer goods companies delivered both directly and through selected partners globally....
Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
and the Greens, and NZ First, and United Future and Jim Anderton. 2c a litre next year, rising to 9.5c a litre by 2011. Yes, you needed that didn't you? 7c of it is to electrify the Auckland passenger rail network, which shows you how much of a great saving that will be, because fares can't recover that cost. 1c is for further upgrades to Auckland's rail network. 1c to help build the Penlink highway...
