December 20, 2025

Waikato’s Newstead Orchard: Future secured as new partner takes over operations

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 20, 2025

Annie Perkins has bought into the business, learning alongside John Woolford.http://dlvr.it/TPwtC4

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
Ben Uffindell
Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
Ben Uffindell
Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
Ben Uffindell
Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
Ben Uffindell
Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
Ben Uffindell
NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
Ben Uffindell
Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
Ben Uffindell
Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
Ben Uffindell
National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
Ben Uffindell
Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
Ben Uffindell

Run on flour, sugar ‘panic buying’ April 5, 2026
Bin Inn owner Monique Beaumont has noticed a marked increase in the numbers of customers stocking up on their 20kg bags of flour and suspects this may be a form of ‘‘panic buying’’, as opposed to the usual Easter shopping. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY A Dunedin bulk food store which is running out of flour has […]
Laine Priestley
Former Otago stalwart remembered as ‘top man’ after crash death April 5, 2026
Ian Rutherford. Members of the Otago cricket community are mourning the death of former long-serving player and administrator Ian Rutherford.
Captain made huge contribution to golden era April 5, 2026
Taine Randell crosses for a try in 2003, his final season with the Highlanders. PHOTO: ODT FILES Welcome to the House of Taine.
60th South Island surf champs April 5, 2026
Surfers put on a show for the judges at St Clair Beach, Dunedin, for the 60th South Island Surf Champs during Easter weekend. The event was hosted by the South Coast Boardriders Association. Photographer Gerard O’Brien captured some of the action.
Green stars as White Ferns win series April 5, 2026
White Ferns batter Maddy Green scores another boundary on her way to 141 not out against South Africa in the deciding ODI at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Saturday in the best of three series. New Zealand won the game by 66 runs. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Maddy Green has never been so pleased to […]
Ong’s Facebook page ‘duct-taped’ for month April 5, 2026
Benedict Ong A controversial Dunedin city councillor has had his Facebook page ‘‘duct-taped’’.
Grant Miller
Mackintosh a brassy, bold design classic April 5, 2026
The Mackintosh Building, Comrie. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED/WIKIMEDIA My best friend’s mother is a talented tenor horn player. So talented in fact, that she is a prominent member of the Brass Central Strathearn band, which puts on regular performances in town halls across Perth and Kinross.
Cartoonist's view - Yeo April 5, 2026
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
Varsity records beaten April 5, 2026
B. Dunne (Otago) throws the 16-pound (about 7kg) hammer at the New Zealand Inter-University Athletic Championships at Dunedin. — Otago Witness, Issue 3761, 13 April 1926, Page 42 The athletic meeting in connection with the New Zealand inter-university tournament proved a most successful affair. The weather was fine, but a fairly brisk southwest wind blew […]
Easy as moving cattle from 9000km away April 5, 2026
Mid Canterbury couple Yanina Ferro (left) and Ignacio (Nacho) Perez at Mount Rivers farm in Mayfield. The 1000-cow herd wears Halter collars and Ignacio’s father, Oscar Perez, runs the software from Osorno, Chile, over 9000km away. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Canterbury herd manager Ignacio Perez’s video of his Chilean father running a cow collar app 9000km away […]
Tim Cronshaw

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