Retired Canterbury farmer John Evans has had to get used to being in the limelight after he discovered a thriving population of rare endangered knobbled weevils.
Sixty-five years ago John and Bev French spent the first night of their honeymoon at a hotel on Papanui Rd in Christchurch after stopping for a "feed of fish and chips".
New Zealand fruit and vegetable giant T&G has set in motion the first commercial planting of Joli branded apples in Canterbury backed by superannuation funds.