Ged Maybury – 25/4/98 Design. You hear a lot about it these days. Social programmes are designed. Software is designed. Coffee is designed. Everything is designed, including the genes of our most famous fruit. I’m talking about the ‘Zespri’, that jet-setting designer kiwifruit of the nineties. It has also been patented and copyrighted and trademarked,…
Conrad – 24/4/98 Season Reign – Annemiek Weterings (Click here for a larger version photo source:Nelson Mail) Please note: this article covers the 1997 New Zealand Wearable Art Awards only. For up to date information please visit the official Website for New Zealand’s International Wearable Art Awards Twenty three year old Wellington artist Annemiek Wetering…
Dorothy – 18/4/98 Resilient and resourceful people have maintained their farms through economic and personal crises. Every day cars speed across the Clarence River Bridge, and most take little notice of the valley and the roads leading inland, but that valley has been divided up for sheep farming since 1860 and there farming families led…
Phily Seynnej – Citizen of the World – 3/4/98 “I ACCUSE” (EMILE ZOLA, 13 JAN. 1898) The dark side of the proposed Code of Social and Family Responsibility. Open letter to the people of New Zealand. One hundred years ago, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter, published on the front page of…
Dorothy – 3/4/98 An interview with Thomas John Hunt – Thomas 4 – known as John Highfield has been farmed for 125 years and John can say with pride that John and Dorothy Hunt at the Highfield entrance the farm has been passed directly down the Hunt family to this day. Currently John and his…
Film Review – Conrad – 27/3/98 This thought provoking, funny and poignant movie is driven by an insightful screenplay which has already won a 1998 Golden Globe Award, and was written by two relative new comers, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also play the lead character and his best friend respectively. The movie was…
Dorothy – 20/3/98 The news that follows is not about New Zealanders or protest action in New Zealand, but we are printing it because our readers have shown overwhelmingly their interest in the topic of the dangers of electromagnetic radiation and we believe that they will want to know what is happening in the U.S.A….
– Conrad – 13/3/98 One of the most emotive issues in New Zealand at the moment is the displaying of an ‘art work’ at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (unfortunately there are no pictures on the Web site). It is basically a statuette of the Virgin Mary with a condom pulled over…
Dorothy – 13/3/98 Hardy plants that cope with dryness – information from Jocelyn Thorpe. You will probably want to read Part 1 and Part 2 in this series if you have not already… Jocelyn Thorpe at the Merivale Garden Centre holds a mixed bowl of hardy plants. Over the last two weeks Jocelyn has suggested…
Dorothy – 13/3/98 For further background you may want to read the related articles about Barry Sligh… Forced to educate himself, Ngima now works to give others the chance of schooling to change their lives… Ngima Dorji Sherpa was a name that came up in the last two articles in People Making Changes describing how…
