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Councillor Notes

After just over a month of having to boil water, I had the pleasure (or some would say the dubious pleasure) of…

Jun 2019

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Cherry picking

Jun 2019

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Something wrong

New Zealand has one of the highest incarceration rates in the OECD (From official Ministry of Justice sources) “ Prisons are a…

Jun 2019

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Some encouraging statistics

Smoking among young teen students appears close to being stubbed out, a new survey suggests. New research announced by Associate Health Minister…

Jun 2019

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Where the big dollars are

All Blacks may top the list when it comes to winning but are away down the pecking order when I comes to…

Jun 2019

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Brain facts

 How many brain cells do adults grow per day? About 700. It used to be thought that you were born with all of…

Jun 2019

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Budget delivers largest funding cut since 2008 for Disability Support Services *

CCS Disability Action believes disabled people’s wellbeing will suffer as a result of Budget 2019. The Government plans to reduce spending on…

Jun 2019

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We Are The Very Model Of A Modern University — The Back Story

BY JOHN ANSELL The story starts when fans of Marx, who died in 1883, in 1884 began the Fabian Society in honour…

Jun 2019

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Music: The Medicine of the Mind

What does music do for you? Music optimises learning Helps you retain information better and musical training, particularly for children under seven,…

Jun 2019

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Youth Jazz to Receive Ongoing Support

Jazz in Martinborough will again be supporting youth jazz in the Wairarapa by sponsoring scholarships for college students to attend the Summer…

Jun 2019

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Ventana workshops on the move

Ventana Creative Collective has moved and is now at 20 Jellicoe Street Invest in your creativity for the first month of winter! …

Jun 2019

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Ninety years in South Wairarapa

Charmaine Alpe (née Davidson) owes her name to the 1926 silent movie What Price Glory. Her mother, an English war bride, decided…

Jun 2019

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