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Low Cost PR advice online
An interview with Tom Brockett Dorothy – 13/05/03 Tom Brockett The phrase Public Relations Consultancy for most small business people conjures up images of large and ongoing costs. It is to save such people that headache and help them succeed in their businesses that Tom Brockett decided to set up a business where at a…
New Zealand’s nuclear-powered ship ban essential
* Robert Green – 12/05/03 Robert Green In August 1992 New Zealand anti-nuclear groups invited me, as a former British Navy Commander concerned about the safety of nuclear power, to conduct a national speaking tour, and meet politicians and members of the Special Committee on Nuclear Propulsion. Telling evidence of safety risks with nuclear-powered ships…
Evanta Ecommerce Software
An interview with Robert Hunt Dorothy – 06/05/03 Looking for a template-driven content management system for your website, a web shopping cart solution, a web forum system, a web survey or other smart web software to improve your e-presence and realise more of the potential of web business? Evanta, an outgrowth of a long experienced…
Neil Cherry, scientist, teacher, politician, peace worker – Part 2
University studies, marriage and fatherhood Dorothy – 2/05/03 University study After leaving school Neil enrolled at the University of Canterbury to study for a B.Sc. At the end of his first year his results were so impressive that he was invited to join the B.Sc. Honours course in Physics. Transport to U.C. Neil was still…
Christchurch Girls’ High Old Girls respond to Fay Weldon
Part 1 Dorothy – 14/04/03 Old Girls who attended Christchurch Girls High School in 1944-6 were amazed and angered when they read in Auto da Fay Fay Weldon’s portrayal of the school in the years when she was a pupil there. They were also very displeased when the magazine, New Zealand Listener, chose to publish…
Bill Moore paintings on cards
Dorothy – 31/03/03 In response to many requests Bill Moore now has available occasional cards featuring eight of his New Zealand paintings. They represent a range of his painting styles and depict a number of Christchurch and Canterbury scenes, including a wintet high country scene, Akaroa and Duvauchelle on Banks Peninsula and the Worcester Street…
Neil Cherry, scientist, teacher, politician, peace worker
Formative influences Dorothy – 28/03/03 The articles on the Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation, based on interviews with Dr Neil Cherry, have been among the most widely read articles in NZine. Since November 2001 when Dr Cherry found that he had a terminal illness, motor neurone disease, I have interviewed him about his early family life…
W J Clarke’s grandson & woman with “steam ticket”
Dorothy – 25/03/03 At the end of March it will be a hundred years since W J Clarke purchased his first Burrell traction engine and began his business as a threshing contractor in South Canterbury. The South Canterbury Traction Engine Club with the help of enthusiasts from other areas will attempt a world record by…
More moa bones recovered
News from the Otago Museum, Dunedin – 20/03/03 Moa Display at the Otago Museum Photo Source Otago Museum An expedition of nine people, led by the Otago Museum, left for the Serpentine Range on a Wednesday afternoon in late February with great expectations of discovering more bones of the upland moa, Megalapteryx didinus. The expedition…
Barretts Farming on Banks Peninsula Part 2
An interview with Robert Barrett Dorothy – 19/03/03 The next generations of Barretts follow in the farming tradition on Banks Peninsula Robert Barrett followed the family tradition and took up farming on Banks Peninsula. After serving in the army in the Korean War he obtained a Rehabilitation farm at Kaituna Valley and he and his…