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Arne Herrmann — 02/05/2007 Phillip Rhodes joined the elite ranks of New Zealand opera singers this evening when he won the 2007 Lexus Song Quest at the competition’s finals concert in the Auckland Town Hall. Phillip Rhodes Photo Source New Zealand International Arts Festival Click here to view a larger version The Lexus Song Quest…

Michelle Johnson Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua has celebrated the end of another hugely successful Kiwi season. Over the course of the 2006/07 season, 112 kiwi eggs were successfully hatched and a further 18 chicks brought in to Kiwi Encounter from the wild, leaving the operation on track to release over 120 kiwis…

Janna Hamilton — 11/04/2007 In November 2006 an article was published in NZine urging Kiwis to enrol for the Oxfam Trailwalker to be held in April 2007. Now it is the final countdown to Oxfam 100km team challenge. More than 1000 participants are squeezing in last minute training sessions before they descend on Taupo this…

Dorothy-05/04/2007 Central Otago is famous for the magnificent autumn colours as the willow and poplar leaves turn gold as winter approaches. These trees around Lake Wanaka are particularly beautiful in autumn and attract thousands of visitors to the area. Enterprising local people have organised The Festival of Colour – a blend of music, stage attractions…

Dorothy–28/03/2007 Be certain to visit Shantytown if you are travelling on New Zealand’s West Coast and want to know more about life in the gold mining days in the 1860s. Shantytown is an effective recreation of a town from that era. It is only 11km (7 miles) from Greymouth and captures the atmosphere of the…

at the NG Gallery 212 Madras Street, Christchurch Tuesday13 March – Friday 13 April Lieve Bierque – 08/03/07 The artworks in the ‘Souvenir de Belgique’ exhibition deal with absence and presence., living and belonging in New Zealand and simultaneously belonging in Belgium, but not being there. ‘World War One’ memorabilia have been used in my…

Christine Cole Catley – 02/03/07 Reprinted from “Canterbury” Summer 2006 Christine Cole Catley recently launched Bright Star, Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Astronomer, the biography of remarkable Canterbury graduate and astronomer Beatrice Hill Tinsley. Catley first heard of the young Beatrice when she was researching the New Plymouth Girls’ High School history, Springboard for Women, published in…

Dr Grant Christie – 24/01/2007 A new comet is gracing our twilight sky and it already ranked as the second brightest comet recorded since 1935, surpassed only by Comet West in 1975. If it breaks apart, it has the potential to become the brightest seen for several centuries. Some keen observers have even managed to…