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Joint Media Statement - Latest News [Page 27]
EziBuy Celebrates Birthday Salvation Army Gift
Monday, 9 June 2008, 1:24 pm | Joint Media Statement
EziBuy’s 30th birthday celebrations will bring relief to a number of low-income families throughout New Zealand. In recognition of its anniversary, EziBuy, Australasia’s largest multi-channel retailer, is donating $30,000 worth of clothing and homeware ... More >>
Film And Television Awards Come Together
Monday, 9 June 2008, 11:37 am | Joint Media Statement
The Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand and the New Zealand Television Broadcasters' Council are pleased to announce they have joined forces to create the inaugural Qantas Film and Television Awards. More >>
NZ, Australia Fund Piango Activities In The Region
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:43 am | Joint Media Statement
The Pacific Islands Association of Non Governmental Organisations (PIANGO) today received funding of FJD$4.5 million from the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) to implement programmes over the next three years. A further ... More >>
"We don’t want our children sucked in by tobacco"
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 9:47 am | Joint Media Statement
Leading medical, public health and youth agencies have hit out at aggressive retail marketing of tobacco, in an open letter published today. The open letter has been signed by the Cancer Society of New Zealand, The National Heart Foundation of New ... More >>
Leave your car behind on World Environment Day
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:57 pm | Joint Media Statement
Be rewarded for taking public transport this Thursday, 5 June and make sustainability part of your life. More >>
More Pied Piper Porkies from LTNZ
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 12:04 am | Joint Media Statement
Failure to give way at intersections is not the third largest cause of injury and death on New Zealand roads after driving at excessive speed and drunk driving, as LTNZ's Rachael Prince is now touting in the Gisbourne Herald. More >>
THL campervans achieve new standard for emissions
Monday, 26 May 2008, 3:44 pm | Joint Media Statement
Tourism Holdings Limited (THL) 1500 campervans are helping to set new national emissions benchmarks with all of the company’s Maui & Britz fleet certified as passing tough exhaust emissions tests introduced six months ago. More >>
Boosting Mâori Exporters
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 1:50 pm | Joint Media Statement
The Poutama Business Trust and New Zealand School of Export are co-operating in a venture to boost Mâori exports. The Poutama Business Trust, which has worked for over twenty years to facilitate growth for Mâori entrepreneurs and businesses, now ... More >>
Highly toxic Endosulfan found in food
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 5:29 pm | Joint Media Statement
Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa New Zealand and Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ More >>
Farm fashion and fantastic fur
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 5:23 pm | Joint Media Statement
Early entries into the Fieldays Ag Art Wear and Possum Fur Fashion Design Award competitions have impressed event organisers, who are looking for even more creations to make Fieldays’ 40th anniversary event one to remember. More >>
50 Years of 111
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 10:51 am | Joint Media Statement
2008 is the 50th anniversary of the 111 emergency response service in New Zealand. The service started as a trial in Masterton and Carterton in September 1958 and was progressively rolled out across the country, with full installation completed by ... More >>
Hamilton printing companies “in the medals”
Friday, 2 May 2008, 10:07 am | Joint Media Statement
Hamilton’s Admark Visual Imaging and The Green Frog Sign Company received a haul of medals over ANZAC weekend at the annual NZ Sign & Display Awards. More >>
AA Industrial Negotiations Resolved
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 3:18 pm | Joint Media Statement
AA Roadservice officers and vehicle inspectors have approved the employment conditions agreed between the AA and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU). More >>
Sheep source of leptospirosis infection for humans
Monday, 28 April 2008, 12:22 am | Joint Media Statement
The changing profile of victims of leptospirosis and the high number of cases amongst Hawke’s Bay meat workers have prompted a co-operative study into the disease between Massey University’s EpiCentre unit and meat company PPCS Limited. The research ... More >>
Problem Gambler Support Initative
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 11:15 am | Joint Media Statement
Small initiative with a potentially big impact in support of the problem gambler has come to fruition. ILT Foundation’s Manager, Ann Eustace, and Ngā Kete Mātauranga Pounamu Trust Problem Gambling Health Promotion worker, Eru Loach have spent energy ... More >>
New Springston bore puts stop to illness outbreak
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 3:23 pm | Joint Media Statement
A Canterbury District Health Board investigation into a cluster of campylobacter cases in the Springston Township during February and March this year has concluded that the outbreak was caused by contamination of the town’s water supply. More >>
How to Host Sustainable Events tool kit
Monday, 21 April 2008, 2:04 pm | Joint Media Statement
Concerned that despite all the focus on sustainability there is a lack of “how to” advice for organisations wanting to turn actions into words, a ground breaking How to Host Sustainable Events tool kit is being created in Wellington. More >>
Wind Power For Scott Base
Friday, 18 April 2008, 9:55 am | Joint Media Statement
Antarctica New Zealand and Meridian Energy are about to embark on a project to build the southernmost wind farm in the world. The project will be part of Antarctica New Zealand¹s contribution to the joint logistics pool with the United States Antarctic ... More >>
Protests Call For Biofuel Targets To Be Scrapped
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:22 am | Joint Media Statement
There were demonstrations in London yesterday as groups condemned the UK government's decision to go ahead with it's biofuel policy against overwhelming evidence of catastrophic impacts on climate, communities, biodiversity and food security. More >>
Groups Opposed To Use Of Family In Interrogations
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 12:06 am | Joint Media Statement
The organizations demand that the Court order the cessation of the use of methods amounting to psychological torture which present a “charade” before suspects that implies that their confession during interrogation will lead to release. More >>
