New Years Eve Dinner
Bring in the new year in style by heading to Belgian Beer Café Torenhof and joining us for a New Year’s Eve Celebration Dinner before heading to Hagley Park for some dancing on the grass and midnight fireworks. The set menu features West Coast whitebait with summer leaves, shredded radish and lemon butter; herb-roasted salmon salad with iceberg lettuce, pickled carrots, toasted seeds and a soy and ginger dressing; New Year chocolate and Baileys surprise; seafood medley of prawns, crumbed mussels, salmon, new potatoes and a light root vegetable Pernod sauce; and to finish, a sorbet with fresh pink gin-marinated strawberries and meringue. Of course there are plenty of fine beer, wine and cocktail options on our drinks menu to complement the sumptuous fare. For those who prefer, non-seafood options are available from our à la carte selection.
Bookings strictly by phone please - (03) 377 1007; cost is $65pp. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
Want to read more? The Press has you covered!
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52.6% Human-centred experience and communication
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14.8% Critical thinking
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29.8% Resilience and adaptability
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2.8% Other - I will share below!
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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