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NEW ZEALAND Summer News, Jan 16, 2012

Emily's family finding summer hard without her
New Zealand Herald
"She loved the summer. She loved the beach. She was a real summer girl. She didn't like the winters in England." Emily and her family moved to New Zealand when she was 10 and she attended Hauraki School, Westlake Girls High and Takapuna Grammar. ...
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All Slots Player Wins on Beach Babes Slot
Casino Advisor
The All Slots online casino press desk adds, "Whether you're freezing in Canada or Norway, or enjoying the hot summer weather down under in Australia or New Zealand, it's always a right time to enjoy a day on the beach with the Beach Babes. ...
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Splashing time packs big safety message
Hawke's Bay Today
READY, SET: Lovey Grant (back), from Te Reinga, and Te Tangata Edwards, from Hastings, got involved in a course run by Water Safety NZ at Pandora Pond. PHOTO/WARREN BUCKLAND HBT120471-03 A summer programme focused on giving local youths the opportunity ...
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Humble pumpkin leads price rise
Stuff.co.nz
Food prices overall rose 0.2 per cent in December compared with November, with big increases in the price of pumpkin, potatoes and sausages, StatisticsNZ says. They increased 2.9 per cent in the year to December. A shortage of pumpkins pushed prices ...
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Political Report: January 17
NZ City
That should still be part of summer education programmes, but as with everything else it comes down to time and money for teachers. Water SafetyNew Zealand is now calling for the government to provide $28 million dollars to spend on education ...
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Cricket: Call to overlook de Boorder 'bizarre'
Otago Daily Times
The left-armer has been the form four-day bowler for the past two seasons but does not become eligible to play for New Zealanduntil the end of the summer. But the promotion of Wells and Bracewell may raise a few eyebrows further north. ...
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Otago Daily Times
Canada: British Columbia's natural beauty
New Zealand Herald
He welcomes visitors - up to 50 boats a day can pull in during summer - and helps keep the area pristine. One of the greatest natural spectacles in British Columbia are the Skookumchuck Narrows - the second largest tidal rapids in the world. ...
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Trio has the horses for courses
The Nelson Mail
That was the case at the Tahuna Beach Holiday Park Speedway yesterday as the 20 finalists divvied up the prizes in the ENZED New Zealand super saloon championship. For the first time in three years, there was no Shane McIntyre on the podium. ...
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Richie Stanaway is on the fast track
The Bay of Plenty Times
The following summer he repeated van Gisbergen's effort of winning the New Zealand Formula Ford title and since then it's been Formula Ford in Australia, a limited number of successful Toyota Racing Series appearances and then to Germany to win the ...
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A nation's morale replenished, but coffers bear brunt of Indian summer
The Australian
Clarke, whose side only a month ago was beaten by the world's eighth-ranked cricketing nation, New Zealand, in Hobart, was sympathetic to the plight of Dhoni, who will be replaced for the next test in Adelaide by out-of-form opener Virender Sehwag. ...
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Safe in the surf
Manawatu Standard
Instead, they choose to give the community their time and skill," Mr Mackay says. "Horizons and Manawatu District Council fund paid lifeguards 11am to 6pm on weekdays for the six weeks of the mainsummer season, and we're very grateful for that. ...
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Manawatu Standard
Silence is golden for Sam
Timaru Herald
Wills heads to the Middle East after his New Zealand and Australian jaunts thissummer and Japan has been conquered. So has Norway and many other countries where English is not the first language. Wills says the format defeats culture and language ...
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Spain: Active Andalucia
New Zealand Herald
It offers a mixed activity week from £649 (NZ$1252) per person with bed and breakfast and includes transfers from Malaga airport. Andalucia's climate is a great draw, but the weather patterns do vary across this large region. ...
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Cornershop Bistro - order amid Christchurch chaos
Stuff.co.nz (blog)
Doug is a trombonist with the New Zealand Symphony and who could resist the thought of identical twin trombonists? Rod and Kath ran the Dolphin CafĂ© in Akaroa for a while. I ate there a couple of times, and it was excellent. He then moved on to become ...
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Stuff.co.nz (blog)
New hi-tech search plane will help save lives - Coastguard
3News NZ
Ten commercial pilots volunteer their time - our pilot was an AirNew Zealand engineer. “It's given us so much more for situational awareness. Tells us where terrain is, we have visuals on LCD screens [and] it tells us where traffic is,” says ...
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3News NZ
No lake like Rotorua for keen angler
The Daily Post
PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER 090112AW7 In the first of a series on Rotorua's lakes we visit Lake Rotorua, the largest in the district and the most productive trout fishery in New Zealand. Bert Robinson loves Lake Rotorua - he fishes for trout six days a day ...
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Walkway changes are in the wind
Taranaki Daily News
The formula was so successful he was now looking to expand around New Zealand and break into the Australian market. Next door was Novelty Bike Hire, another long-standing walkway business. Couple Renee and Andre Manella bought it in 2009 and grew the ...
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Taranaki Daily News
Peter offers chance to keep
Hawke's Bay Today
The 32-year-old said showing his fielding prowess was vital if he wanted to represent New Zealand again. "It's not a bad thing for me to show the selectors I'm not just a wicketkeeper but I can have a batting role and run around the field as well. ...
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Giddings gets balance right
TheMercury.com.au
Some in the media and the Liberal Party think that because Tasmania is going through difficult times Giddings should only have short break over summer. There seems to be a correlation about the state of your business or state and the amount of time a ...
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Fourth to first in a Splitsecond
Hawke's Bay Today
The New Zealand Oaks is the goal for Splitsecond and yesterday's performance suggested it's a realistic one for this Waikato Stud-owned daughter of Pins. The TAB seems to have a lot of respect for her and considers her a genuine contender, ...
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Air Malta leases Airbus to Sky Airlines of Chile
DI-VE
The aircraft will again re-join Air Malta's fleet in early March in time for the airline's busy summer season. This is the fourth wet lease agreement between both airlines since 2007. Through such agreements Air Malta generates additional revenue and ...
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Olympic champion Baumann takes final Ottawa swim
CBC.ca
CBC Baumann officially announced he was stepping down as CEO of Own the Podium in September to move back Down Under, this time to Auckland, New Zealand. Baumann, who deems himself cancer-free, said he wants to be closer to family and will also become ...
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CBC.ca
England ponder best attack to take Pakistan wickets on benign pitches
The Guardian
Finn last played a Test at Lord's against Sri Lanka last summer, as replacement for the injured Anderson, but spent the rest of thesummer mixing strength and conditioning training with cricket for Middlesex as well as spending time before Christmas ...
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The Guardian
Monday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Hungary's right winger called Attila; China's ...
Interest.co.nz
No wonder the Scots are grumpy - One of the stories that has emerged from left field over the summer break is the one about Scotland's push for independence. This piece in The Independent detailing how an explosive piece of research written in 1975 ...
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Help quilters to give athletes a warm welcome
Hemel Gazette
Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning is backing a scheme to give atheletes a warm welcome to London this summer. The politician is urging people to support the Quilts4London project, which aims to make a home-made pennant for every Olympic and Paralympic...
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Hemel Gazette
Cattle-Price Plunge Just Start of Pressure on Korean Farmers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Now, at a time when US farmers are watching Argentina's hot summer days and Brazil's cattle output for the effect on their own planting and selling plans, South Korean farmers remain mostly locked in their own centrifugal force. ...
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The hard truth is that VVS Laxman's time on the international stage is over
Cricket Country
With India's next commitment outside the subcontinent scheduled in 2013 when they tour Zimbabwe in the summer and South Africa and New Zealand in winter, the Adelaide Test match, which starts on January 24, is time for the new sunrise. ...
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Drop in: Restaurant Alrina
Krakow Post
Over the last few years, a number of establishments have appeared on the water's edge, mostly floating bars and restaurants that come into their own during the summer months. Restaurant Alrina is one of these new-arrivals – a 19th-century Dutch barge ...
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Jalte Norder, 20: How I cycled 2154 km from Netherlands to Czech Republic
Baltic Review
I had no idea of what to do during my summer holidays. I knew that my Russian friend Angelina was going to have a birthday party in Paris, so I went there. I still had some time after arriving to the French capital, and I decided to cycle further. ...
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Baltic Review
Hartley Looks To Start Afresh Under Lancaster's Regime
Sportsvibe
Time spent with the Saints captain is filled with phrases such as “new dawn,” “fresh start” and “looking forward, not back.” His own stock has risen immeasurably since the lows of New Zealand, and not just at Franklin's Gardens. ...
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Peter Dinklage raises awareness for injured actor
CNN (blog)
Henderson has said that he thinks the incident was inspired by a dwarf-throwing contest that players from England's rugby team attended at a bar inNew Zealand over the summer. "With the rugby one, the dwarf-throwing...the guy might have thought, ...
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CanadaCanada's women soccer team has plenty to prove
CBC.ca
He was there too, staying in the same hotel, doing his best to make New Zealand competitive. All things considered he did a decent job bearing in mind the Football Ferns had never previously registered a victory at the Women's World Cup. ...
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Ohio dairy farm coddles cows with water beds
Springfield News Sun
With fans and sprinklers to cool the cows in the summer, Richard Conrad said his mom jokes that she "wants to come back as one of my dairy cows, because they've got it made." "There are a lot of people who can't say they've slept on a waterbed," he ...
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Search continues for cruise ship survivors
IBNLive.com
The accident is also likely to fuel a debate – which had already been rekindled after the grounding of the container ship Rena offNew Zealand in October – over standards of training for ships' crews. Although cruise lines – which pay well compared ...
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IBNLive.com
Boys showcase footy skills on world stage
inmycommunity
The undefeated team shared Australian culture with opponents from Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Samoa, Tonga, Soloman Islands and Vanuatu. Cody Grace travelled to South Africa and Jamie Ryder to Fiji on football tours oversummer.
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Britannia rules the waves: The best cruises and luxury voyages leaving the UK ...
Daily Mail
An 18-night fly-cruise from Fremantle on November 5, calling at Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand's Milford Sound, costs from £2856pp if booked by February 29 (www.royalcaribbean.co.uk, 0844 493 2061). Back home, Southampton will be the focal point ...
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Daily Mail
Summertime blues: This summer's winners and losers - National ...
Tintin has drawn the crowds in this summer. Photo / Supplied. Winners. Movie theatres. The big winners of this wet summer have been movie theatres, where...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1...
Watch Shameless (US) Season 2 Episode 1 - Summertime Online ...
Search scope: the Web; NZ only ... Shameless (US) full Summertime pales in comparison to Shameless (US) full Summertime. ... Let's take the time to filter what Shameless (US) Season 2 Episode 1 megavideo news is worth reading online. ...
nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/.../watch-shameless-us-season-2-e...
Young bookworms join the Summertime Reading Club | Scoop News
The Summertime Reading Club has returned, exciting young bookworms across Christchurch, and helping fill the gap left in children's education left by the ...
www.scoop.co.nz/.../young-bookworms-join-the-summertime-...
Summertime blues: This summer's winners and losers
Winners. Movie theatres. The big winners of this wet summer have been movie theatres, where parents have been taking their restless kids to films such as ...
www.nzherald.co.nz/movies/news/article.cfm?c_id=200...
Summertime and infants off leash | Otago Daily Times Online News ...
[image]Summer holidays - aren't they bliss? Mmmm. For some people ...
www.odt.co.nz/news/...lakes/.../summertime-and-infants-leash
Some gain on rainy summer - news - waikato-times | Stuff.co.nz
There are financial winners and losers in this summer's weather lottery.
www.stuff.co.nz/.../For-many-rains-a-pain-but-there-are-a-few...
Summer Time-yeeeoww!! // Photo Gallery // isolated New Zealand ...
Gallery: Summer Time-yeeeoww!! < Back To Gallery. sol, poping a nice reverse. Uploaded by morissard; Photographer morissard; Rider sol; 3rd Jan, 2012 ...
isolated.co.nz/photo/details/5267/_morissard_sol
Summertime city calls for a party | Wairarapa Lifestyle News | Health ...
It's no wonder visitors flock to Melbourne to explore the sights and lap up the best food and drink.
www.times-age.co.nz/news/summertime-city...for.../1228593/
Summer Report Wednesday 11 January 2012 - Radio New Zealand
16 January 2012 - 7:27 am NZ time .... Susie and Tim will be bringing you the latest news, weather and sports, with plenty of summer features. Our aim is to keep ...
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/.../20120111
  
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