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Banking Times: Daily Banking News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Finance Minister of New Zealand, Michael Cullen, has revealed that the government is to introduce an opt-in retail deposit guarantee scheme, under the provisions of the Public Finance Act. The scheme would cover banks registered in New Zealand, as well as other retail deposit-taking firms, such as credit unions and building societies. However, related party liabilities [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Australia and New Zealand have announced coordinated moves to guarantee all savings deposits in banks and financial institutions amid growing concern over the fallout from the global economic crisis.
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Where Worklife Matters (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Mimiwhangata, Northland from Emma Neill * As at 07-Nov-05, 31 birds (14 ad F; 7 ad M; 6 juv F; 2 juv M; 2 unk sex juv) are fitted with transmitters. * Juveniles: 10 juveniles of the 2005 season have been radio-tagged so far, with more broods coming of age over the next two months. * Deaths: no deaths [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Australia and New Zealand have joined the growing number of countries promising to provide more protection to savers against the financial crisis.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Wellington - The New Zealand stock market - the first to open in the world every day - rose slightly Monday morning after opening down in nervous early trading. The benchmark NZX 50 index, which slumped 4.7 per cent to 2,805.31 on Friday, started the...
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Google Maps Mania (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
New Zealand Herald Election 08 Tracker The New Zealand Herald have released a Google Maps mashup ahead of November's New Zealand general election. The map shows where each of the leaders of the main parties are. Each of the political parties leaders are listed in the map sidebar. When you click on a politician's name the map centres on their location and an information window opens describing their...
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Adland (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
DDB New Zealand point out that Stihl doesn’t just make powerful chainsaws. Check out how well this works with Stihl cleaning campaign from France created by Publicis Conseil. That's a consistent client (in a good way) folks. Mat Baker : Photographer Carl Baker : Retoucher read more
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UK Against Fluoridation (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Fluoridating Under The Test October 13, 2008 - 6:48pm The tide against fluoridating the city's water supply may be turning. The Infrastructure and Services Committee of the Dunedin City Council voted this afternoon against the status quo. Fluoridating Under The Test Which is that the council will confirm the existing policy of fluoridating the city's water supply. There were heated exchanges between...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The next morning Grahame and I left the kids watching another movie and we went in search of coffee. I'm in withdrawal for a familiar cup of coffee We walked for a long time and explored found the public library and finally decided we'd abandoned them long enough. Getting back our room was sorted out so we had to move and then we began the hunt for supermarket and car rental firms.Basicall
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Motorhome News from New Zealand 210th October 2008We didn't expect any frills with our rented motorhome. The price was keen booked from a UK agent over the internet some months ago but 'Lizzie' as we affectionately call it has been good to us since we collected it from Auckland Airport. It's all a bit basic but solid as a rental machine needs to be. Weighing in at around 3 tonnes and just
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
More people in New Zealand now think the economy is going to get worse, according to a new poll released on Monday. The One News Colmar Brunton poll of 1,000 people covers the period from Oct. 4 to Oct. 9. It showed 42 percent think that during the next 12 months the economy will be worse than it is at present, up from 38 percent three months ago. However, 38 percent believe the economy will improve...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
We were all up relatively early and packed as well as we could without a scale. After a taxi ride to the airport we weighed our stuff and began the task of rearranging the heavy school books to bring each bag under 20kg. We checked our bags and had breakfast. After lingering around to look at the shops we went to security only to find that the carryon baggage had a 5 kg restriction. All our
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
New Zealand's opposition National party still leads Labor party by 18 points in the latest One News Colmar Brunton opinion poll released on Sunday night. National's popularity has dropped by one point, but Labor has not moved in the past week. The poll of 1000 people puts National at 51 percent and Labor on 33 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. The Roy Morgan poll...
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The state of the economy in New Zealand was the key issue when the main parties formally kicked off their campaigns for next month's general election.
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
New Zealand relied heavily on the all-round talents of Jacob Oram to dig them out of trouble and claim a series-levelling 75-run win against Bangladesh on Saturday.
