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243 days ago

🎈 Getting to The 2025 Wairarapa Balloon Family Carnival this Saturday 🎈

Denver Grenell from Destination Wairarapa

Here’s what you need to know:
📍 Location: Solway Showgrounds
🕑 2pm: Carpark Opens
🕒 3pm: Gates Open

Heading North from Wellington, Upper Hutt, Kapiti Coast:
🚗 Take State Highway 2 (SH2) north towards Masterton.
🛣️ Follow SH2 through Featherston, Greytown, and Carterton.
🏙️ As you approach Masterton, stay on SH2.
➡️ Turn Left onto Judds Road. 🎉 Enter Solway Showgrounds and follow the signs to the south car parking area on your right.

Heading South (from Eketāhuna, Pahiatua, Palmerston North, Napier):
🚗 Take State Highway 2 (SH2) south towards Masterton.
🛣️ Drive through Eketāhuna and continue on to Masterton.
🏙️ Once in Masterton, stay straight on SH2 past the town centre.
➡️ Turn right onto Fleet Street, following the signs for Solway Showgrounds.
📍 The entrance to Solway Showgrounds is on your left at 29 Fleet Street, Solway, Masterton.
🎉 Enter Solway Showgrounds and follow the signs to the north car parking area on your left.

🕒 Leave home early, give yourself plenty of time, and be patient.
For more information, check out: www.nzballoons.co.nz......

🚆 Please note: There are no suitable train times from Wellington to Solway Showgrounds

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8 hours ago

Scam Alert: Fake information regarding December Bonuses from MSD

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

The Ministry of Social Development is reporting that fake information is circulating about new ‘December bonuses’ or ‘benefit increases’

If you get suspicious communication, please contact Netsafe.

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1 day ago

Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”

We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?

Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.

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Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
  • 41.3% Yes
    41.3% Complete
  • 32.8% Maybe?
    32.8% Complete
  • 25.9% No
    25.9% Complete
436 votes
22 days ago

Some Choice News!

Kia pai from Sharing the Good Stuff

Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.

Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.

Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?

Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!

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