Ashhurst - Pohangina, Ashhurst

637 days ago

What skills are at risk of being lost in our communities?

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

With universities starting up last week, so brings first-time flatters trying their hand at cooking for the first time. In 2020, 27% of a household’s weekly budget was spent on takeaways so it’s no wonder that cooking is becoming a bit of a lost art.
Alongside sewing and knitting, what other … View more
With universities starting up last week, so brings first-time flatters trying their hand at cooking for the first time. In 2020, 27% of a household’s weekly budget was spent on takeaways so it’s no wonder that cooking is becoming a bit of a lost art.
Alongside sewing and knitting, what other vital skills do you think are at risk of being lost?

Share your thoughts below for the We Say You Say column in the local paper - write NFP if you want your comments excluded.

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630 days ago

Music DVDs Offers

Cherie from Feilding

Music DVDs different genres. There's 20 of them. All good condition. An movie dvds. Offers please.

Price: $123

632 days ago

Check you have your census pack

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632 days ago

A Rural Perspective - an exhibition by Manawatu artist Graham Christensen.

Natasha from Ashhurst - Pohangina

On now until the 30th of March at the Feilding Art Centre, 104 Manchester St, Feilding.

Open weekdays: 10am - 4pm, Saturdays: 10am - 1pm. Free entry.

Graham Christensen has lived much of his life on and around farms within the Manawatu/Rangitikei region. His father, grandfather and great … View more
On now until the 30th of March at the Feilding Art Centre, 104 Manchester St, Feilding.

Open weekdays: 10am - 4pm, Saturdays: 10am - 1pm. Free entry.

Graham Christensen has lived much of his life on and around farms within the Manawatu/Rangitikei region. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were all farmers and from a young age Graham worked on shearing gangs and hay trucks before studying agriculture and going on to spend a lifetime within the sector. Now retired, Graham lives on a farm near Ashhurst and paints from a large light-filled studio – fittingly, a converted room at the back of the barn.

In this exhibition Graham takes his lived experience and captures moments in time that many of us will know and love from our own memories of rural New Zealand.

Graham regularly exhibits throughout the Manawatu/Rangitikei region and opens his private studio annually for the Art Trail Manawatu. He is frequently commissioned to paint pieces of sentimental value to celebrate anniversaries, special birthdays and retirement. His work is hung in homes, businesses and private collections throughout New Zealand and internationally.

More of Graham's work can be seen on his website: www.grahamchristensen.co.nz...

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633 days ago

RAMS for sale

Sonya from Bunnythorpe

Feilding
02108524598

Country homes only: we don't mind viewing times, will be at our own discretion.

$150 each- pay first, then arrange to pick up by weekend. sorry we do not have cell banking, cash or bank first.

Must have own trailer and must have be able to handle correctly and… View more
Feilding
02108524598

Country homes only: we don't mind viewing times, will be at our own discretion.

$150 each- pay first, then arrange to pick up by weekend. sorry we do not have cell banking, cash or bank first.

Must have own trailer and must have be able to handle correctly and lift them on to own trailer.

No time waster, genuine enquires only.

Price: $150

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635 days ago

Nice day

Elaine from Milson

What a nice day covid must be over now as twice this morning had the church goers knocking on my door no masks 🎭

633 days ago
633 days ago

That's a lot of hair!

Robert Anderson from Curtain Clean Palmerston North

Pic of us surgically removing a cat from a curtain

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634 days ago

Cookbooks

Paige from Roslyn - Terrace End

Need gone just don't use them

Free

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634 days ago

Do you enjoy playing 500?

Joanne from Palmerston North Central

Do you enjoy playing 500? Join us from 6.45 pm at the PN Bridge Clubrooms, cnr Cook and Cuba Streets, 1st , 3rd and 5th Fridays each month. Play starts at 7.00 pm. $5.00, includes supper and prizes. No partner required. For more info Ph Jo 06 3574910 or 021 1395367.

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635 days ago

Our Big Sell Off is on Now!

Beds 4 U

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We have the bed for you @ BEDS4U.
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635 days ago

Tv + Free view box

Stu from Aokautere - Fitzherbert

Tv and Free view box 24" excellent condition txt 0212644294

Price: $60

636 days ago

Check you have your census pack

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636 days ago

Market Insights

Sheryn from Sheryn Prince Real Estate

Number of first home buyers getting into a home of their own at an eight year low

The number of first home buyers getting into a home of their own at the start of this year was at its lowest level since 2015.

According to the latest Reserve Bank figures, banks approved just 1166 mortgages … View more
Number of first home buyers getting into a home of their own at an eight year low

The number of first home buyers getting into a home of their own at the start of this year was at its lowest level since 2015.

According to the latest Reserve Bank figures, banks approved just 1166 mortgages for first home buyers in January, the lowest number in any month of the year since January 2015 (apart from April 2020 when housing market activity came to a standstill due to the Covid lockdown).

And as mortgage interest rates have been steadily rising, the amount being borrowed by first home buyers has been steadily decreasing.

In January this year the average value of the loans approved to first home buyers was $548,885. That's down by $46,513 (-7.8%) from its May 2022 peak of $595,398.

However almost a third of those loans approved in January this year were low equity loans to first first home buyers with less than a 20% deposit.

In January this year, 370 low equity mortgages were approved to first home buyers.

Although that is a low number, it made up 31.7% of all the mortgage approved to first home buyers in January.

That was the first time the low equity loans to first home buyers have gone above 30% of the total since November 2021, when house prices also hit their cyclical peak.

While rising interest rates have reduced the number of first home buyers getting into their own homes, they are also affecting the amount they are paying for them.

Although higher interest costs mean fewer aspiring first home buyers are getting into a home of their own, they are proving to be a more resilient part of the market than either investors or existing owner-occupiers.

However the low overall number of mortgages being approved to aspiring first home buyers suggests that home ownership likely remains an impossible dream for many.

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