KartSport KARTSPORT NEW ZEALANDMedia informationFor immediate release Sparco (Australia) Rotax Max Nationals Ipswich Queensland Australia Sat/Sun September 04-05 201002-09-10EVENT PREVIEW Kiwi Karters Take On The Aussies This WeekendTop New Zealand karters Daniel Kinsman, Aarron Cunningham and Andy Schofield crossed the Tasman this week to contest this year's Sparco Rotax Nationals at Queensland's Willowbank Racing Complex near Ipswich over the weekend. The event... more>

Article - Businesswire Fonterra hires NZX to design share trading platform, retains advisorsSept. 2 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group hire securities market operator NZX Ltd. to help design a platform for shareholders of the world’s biggest dairy exporter to trade stock amongst themselves.“The farmer-only exchange for trading shares, which will operate on the Fonterra farmer intranet (Fencepost), will be unique, and will be built from scratch,” chief financial officer... more>

New Zealand Government Green light for $65m Whakatane Hospital projectThe Government's new investment in Health continues with approval of a $65 million redevelopment of Whakatane Hospital, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced while visiting the hospital today."This gives the Bay of Plenty District Health Board (DHB) the green light to finalise the design. Site preparations are expected to begin this summer," Mr Ryall said."In the short term, it's expected there will be 20 to 30 local... more>

New Zealand Government Recovering outstanding fines and reparation remains a priority Minister for Courts, Georgina te Heuheu has commended Court collections staff who participated in a joint operation alongside North Shore Police recently, which saw Warrants to Seize for unpaid fines issued amounting to over $17,000.00.Seven vehicles worth $12,312.28 were seized during the operation which ran from 6pm Thursday until 2am on Friday morning. A further $5,209.50 was paid during the... more>

New Zealand Government 55,000 children get health checksOver 55,000 four year olds have now received B4School health checks – 40,000 of them in the past 12 months."The Government spends $9 million each year on B4School Checks, but last year the programme was performing so poorly, Health Minister Tony Ryall warned DHBs he would stop the programme if the number of checks didn't increase."DHBs stepped up after that and overall, they have delivered this important health check to... more>

International Rugby Board Semi Finals: Black Ferns reach fourth final New Zealand remain on course for a fourth straight Women's Rugby World Cup crown after running in seven tries to beat France 45-7 in the first semi final. But who will they face, England or Australia? [See Womens RWC - Semi finals: England edge titanic battle] NEW ZEALAND 45-7 FRANCE New Zealand produced a clinical performance to comfortably despatch France and duly book their place in the Women's Rugby World Cup... more>

Private School Survey 2010 Parents Launch Private School SurveyTwo parents from West Auckland are launching a national public survey today. Steve Paris and Angel Garden say the survey is to gage the knowledge and opinions of private school attendees, their parents and guardians nationwide regarding the forthcoming change in the law governing private schools. Education Amendment Bill 2, which will update the law regarding private schools, is currently in Select Committee.Paris and... more>

SNOW SPORTS: With the 2010 FIS Snowboard and Freestyle Junior World Champs over today (31.08.2010), elite junior winter sports athletes from around the world are packing their bags to leave New Zealand - but many of them will now have high hopes of returning. Next time round, it could be for the 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games which have just been announced for 13 - 28 August 2011. In a fitting climax to the FIS Juniors - the final event in a highly charged 2010 winter sports calendar in New... more>

Conservation Week 2010:  12 - 19 September, 2010 Love is in the air for Conservation Week 2010 - themed ‘Love New Zealand’ - and conservation’s noisiest spokesperson is busy tweeting out the message. Sirocco - New Zealand’s television star kakapo - is taking his conservation spokesbird role very seriously with regular tweets about Conservation Week on Twitter, as well as updates on his Facebook page with offers of help to event organisers. Sirroco is one of only... more>

Article - Businesswire High Court throws out Bridgecorp chairman’s appealSept. 2 (BusinessDesk) –The High Court in Wellington threw out an appeal by Bruce Davidson, the former chairman of failed finance company Bridgecorp, to have his directorship ban lifted.The Bridgecorp group of companies collapsed in mid-2007 owning investors in its debt securities an estimated $486 million. At the time of the collapse Bruce Davidson served as a director on six of the companies in the group,... more>