Thousands of people packed themselves, mostly cheerfully,
into the inner-city streets of Dunedin for a colourful
Thieves' Alley Market Day on Saturday.
They may not all become All Whites, but Green Island Football
Club members enjoyed their own passionate international
sporting encounter with a composite overseas team from a
visiting cruise ship on Saturday.
Monty Wright has been reappointed Otago Fish and Game Council
chairman and Dave Witherow remains the council's
representative on the New Zealand Fish and Game Council.
The Otago Conservation Board strongly opposes a Department of
Conservation agreement in principle to grant consent for a
proposed $150 million Milford Dart bus tunnel.
Thirty legal scholars, including people from Australia, South
Korea and the United States, have converged on the University
of Otago to take part in a two-day discussion on aspects of
"adversarialism" in the legal system.
A new foundation programme launched as part of an Otago
Polytechnic Maori trades training initiative will help
counter New Zealand's significant skills shortage,
polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker says.
A 56-year-old Nelson man who badly fractured a leg and
injured his head when he fell about 5 metres from a track
during a tramping trip in South Westland was in Dunedin
Hospital last night after a "challenging'' helicopter rescue.
Otago Settlers Museum curator and historian Sean Brosnahan
will attend an international workshop in Edinburgh next month
as the museum continues to build closer links with Dunedin's
Scottish sister city.
Continuing problems
with poverty and ensuring care reaches the "invisible" needy
were highlighted in Dunedin yesterday during a discussion,
initiated by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett,
focusing on a green paper about vulnerable children.
