Central Hawkes Bay District, Waipukurau

2052 days ago

Easter Boat Safety

Community Engagement Advisor from Greater Wellington Regional Council

If you're planning to enjoy the long weekend with some recreational boating, we've got some top tips!

As we’re going into colder weather it becomes more important to keep safety a top priority. Did you know that in water, the body loses heat 20 to 30 times faster than it does in air! … View more
If you're planning to enjoy the long weekend with some recreational boating, we've got some top tips!

As we’re going into colder weather it becomes more important to keep safety a top priority. Did you know that in water, the body loses heat 20 to 30 times faster than it does in air! 😲 We encourage boaties to remember these five simple precautions:

• Wear your lifejacket
• Take two waterproof ways to call for help
• Check the marine weather forecast
• Avoid alcohol
• Be a responsible skipper

And remember, if in doubt, don’t go out 🐟

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2052 days ago

Bright Biking

Community Engagement Advisor from Greater Wellington Regional Council

3,800 people biked to work in February for the Aotearoa Bike Challenge! We’re seeing more people embracing the active lifestyle, but winter is coming and we need to bike bright in the night🌛 Greater Wellington has some colourful giveaways to help you stay visible on your bike 🚴‍♀️

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3,800 people biked to work in February for the Aotearoa Bike Challenge! We’re seeing more people embracing the active lifestyle, but winter is coming and we need to bike bright in the night🌛 Greater Wellington has some colourful giveaways to help you stay visible on your bike 🚴‍♀️

Giveaways:
Help yourself to retro-reflective tape, back pack covers and slap bands from:
Level 2, 15 Walter Street, Te Aro
Residents in Porirua, Kapiti or Wairarapa, contact your local council road safety and sustainable transport team.
Lower Hutt residents can contact roadsafety@huttcity.govt.nz
Wellington City residents can email cycling@wcc.govt.nz

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2052 days ago

On the way

Communications from Hastings District Council

You should get one of these in your letterbox over the next few days (if you haven't already got it). It sets out the changes to plastics recycling and the reasons for it. It includes a sticker, so if you have a bin you use for plastics stick it on there. The signs at recycling drop-off … View moreYou should get one of these in your letterbox over the next few days (if you haven't already got it). It sets out the changes to plastics recycling and the reasons for it. It includes a sticker, so if you have a bin you use for plastics stick it on there. The signs at recycling drop-off centres are all going up, with everything almost ready for the May 1 changeover.

2053 days ago

Thank you to everyone who entered our 2019 Neighbours Day Aotearoa Photo Contest! 📸💙

The Team from Neighbourhood Support New Zealand

We loved seeing your snaps and reading about your awesome community events across the country bringing neighbours together over games, food, music, dance, and even art.

Congratulations to Masterton Neighbourhood Support, Central Taranaki Safe Community Trust, Neighbourhood Support Wanganui, … View more
We loved seeing your snaps and reading about your awesome community events across the country bringing neighbours together over games, food, music, dance, and even art.

Congratulations to Masterton Neighbourhood Support, Central Taranaki Safe Community Trust, Neighbourhood Support Wanganui, Napier Neighbourhood Support, Neighbourhood Support Papakura District and our other winners who are being sent home with a $100 Prezzy card courtesy of our friends at Neighbourly.

Until next year...

#NDA2019

2053 days ago

How about getting creative this Easter?

Resene

Whether you're a dab hand at DIY or a recycling rookie, why not make good use of the Easter break and show your neighbours your upcycling talents in the 2019 Resene Upcycling Awards!

Upcycling is all about taking a preloved item and transforming it - whether it's turning old … View more
Whether you're a dab hand at DIY or a recycling rookie, why not make good use of the Easter break and show your neighbours your upcycling talents in the 2019 Resene Upcycling Awards!

Upcycling is all about taking a preloved item and transforming it - whether it's turning old skateboards into a coffee table, pallets into a home entertainment unit or repurposing an old baby cot into a desk for your little learners.

Unleash your creativity on your neighbourhood by sharing your creation in this year's Resene Upcycling Awards. Make sure you tell us about any Resene paints, colours and stains you've used - and don't forget your before and after photos. You could win one of four prizes worth $500!

Entries close Sunday 5 May.
Enter now

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2053 days ago

Invest with SBS Bank

SBS Bank

In addition to the great service we offer at SBS Bank, we also have great term investment rates. Invest a minimum of $1,000 with us for a 12-month term and you’ll receive 3.40%p.a. But the best part is you don’t need to even visit a branch – you can do it online.

Here’s the legal stuff: … View more
In addition to the great service we offer at SBS Bank, we also have great term investment rates. Invest a minimum of $1,000 with us for a 12-month term and you’ll receive 3.40%p.a. But the best part is you don’t need to even visit a branch – you can do it online.

Here’s the legal stuff: Rates are subject to change. Available for interest at maturity redeemable shares between $1,000 and $5,000,000 only. Specific account opening criteria, terms and conditions apply. A copy of the Southland Building Society (SBS Bank) Term Investment Terms & Conditions are available on request from any branch of SBS Bank or at sbsbank.co.nz.
Find out more

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2056 days ago

Household items for sale

Mereana from Central Hawkes Bay District

HW Cylinder wrap. Never used.
2 outdoor loungers
Fridge/freezer - the big one.

Negotiable

2057 days ago

400 little Kiwis need your help.

The Team from KidsCan Charitable Trust

Hi Neighbours

Our littlest people need your help. Poverty doesn’t start at 5, but until now there’s been no nationwide programme to help preschoolers who are hungry and cold.

KidsCan is changing that. They’re delivering raincoats, shoes and five fresh meals a week to 25 early childhood … View more
Hi Neighbours

Our littlest people need your help. Poverty doesn’t start at 5, but until now there’s been no nationwide programme to help preschoolers who are hungry and cold.

KidsCan is changing that. They’re delivering raincoats, shoes and five fresh meals a week to 25 early childhood centres. Attendance is up, and the children are happier and more settled.

"Everyone has the same meal so children don't feel like they have less," Manaia View Kindergarten teacher Kathy Belz says. "It's upholding everyone's mana.”

40 more centres are waiting for help. KidsCan, Stuff and Neighbourly have partnered up to raise enough money to support 1000 more children - and we need 400 more generous Kiwis to hold little hands. To support a child, sign up at KidsCan.org.nz
Support a little Kiwi now

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2057 days ago

House Sitter Available

Tania from Central Hawkes Bay District

Are you heading away and still to arrange the care of your pets? I offer house & pet sitting services that alleviate your stress of leaving your fur baby's in a kennel or cattery. You'll return home to much loved and happy well-adjusted pets.

Tania here from www.facebook.com... where… View more
Are you heading away and still to arrange the care of your pets? I offer house & pet sitting services that alleviate your stress of leaving your fur baby's in a kennel or cattery. You'll return home to much loved and happy well-adjusted pets.

Tania here from www.facebook.com... where I've been serving families in NZ and around the world full time as their sitter since 2011.

I've just moved into the region and calling the CHB my 'home base' and happy to make myself available to serve your holiday getaways with taking care of your pets.

Cost: $20/day - for the 1st 3 weeks, then negotiable thereafter for longer requests.

Feel free to look me up on my FB housesitting page for references, photos, & videos - you'll find me relaxed, warm and friendly and your pets loved and smooched often! Not to mention plants watered and general security of having someone around.

I work from 'home' as an illustrator so your pets will have plenty of time hanging out with a human. I'm a non-smoker and a bit of a teetotaler with a cleared police check, should you require extra assurance.

Book me today!

tania@drawerfullofgiants.com and you'd also be welcome to visit my business website to know more about me www.drawerfullofgiants.com...

2060 days ago

How to Grow Flowers: our 75th anniversary special

Mei Leng Wong Reporter from NZ Gardener & Get Growing

Yippeee! Just received the early copies of How to Grow Flowers 1944-2019, a special edition celebrating our 75th year (making us the oldest continuously published magazine in New Zealand), and it's beautiful! The first of a set coming out this year, How to Grow Flowers features the best advice… View moreYippeee! Just received the early copies of How to Grow Flowers 1944-2019, a special edition celebrating our 75th year (making us the oldest continuously published magazine in New Zealand), and it's beautiful! The first of a set coming out this year, How to Grow Flowers features the best advice from our archive, complete with vintage wisdom from long-time subscribers, garden clubs and knowledgeable experts. You have until April 14 to get the pre-sale price of $11.90 (25% off retail price). Order online or phone 0800 624 744.

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2061 days ago

Free help with your decorating dilemmas

Jo Haywood Reporter from Homed

Thanks to everyone who joined us or submitted questions for our live chat with Resene colour experts Christine Hawkings and Merenia Patira.

If you missed it, you can still check out their answers and get some fresh decorating ideas, here.

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2062 days ago

Discover your rights with the CAB!

Sacha Green from Citizens Advice Bureau New Zealand

Do you know what your rights are at work? How about your rights to do with renting or owning a home? If you buy something that’s faulty do you know what your options are? This CAB Awareness Week from 8-14 April you’re being invited to Discover Your Rights – Tūhuratia ō motika!

Helping … View more
Do you know what your rights are at work? How about your rights to do with renting or owning a home? If you buy something that’s faulty do you know what your options are? This CAB Awareness Week from 8-14 April you’re being invited to Discover Your Rights – Tūhuratia ō motika!

Helping people to know what their rights and responsibilities are and how they can act on these is core to what the Citizens Advice Bureau is about. We help people from all walks of life to access the information they need so they are empowered to take next steps and to resolve their problems.

A highlight of this year’s Awareness Week is the launch of the CAB’s new public website - www.cab.org.nz.... After a year of development and user testing, the resulting website provides an accessible, mobile-friendly, knowledgebase of 2,000 questions and answers about people’s rights that are based on real issues confronted by clients.

The information about rights is grounded in the law but is practical and is expressed in a way that’s easy to understand.

The website also provides a directory of more than 30,000 community organisations so that the CAB can help connect people with any additional services they need.

We’re keen to break down any barriers people face in finding out what their rights are. Our new website is a fantastic resource for the whole community, and complements the amazing face-to-face and phone service provided by our skilled and dedicated volunteers.

We invite you to Discover Your Rights with us this Awareness Week by checking out our new website www.cab.org.nz..., calling us 0800 367 222, or by visiting your local CAB. We’re here to help.

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2062 days ago

Severe weather warning: heavy Rain for the Tararua District and Hawkes Bay

Neighbourly from Neighbourly.co.nz

A complex and slow-moving trough of low pressure affects the North Island today, bringing rain or showers to many places, with some heavy falls about parts of eastern districts.

The heaviest rain is expected in the Tararua District and Hawkes Bay south of Waipawa where a heavy rain warning is … View more
A complex and slow-moving trough of low pressure affects the North Island today, bringing rain or showers to many places, with some heavy falls about parts of eastern districts.

The heaviest rain is expected in the Tararua District and Hawkes Bay south of Waipawa where a heavy rain warning is still in force. Periods of rain, heavy at times, is also expected northwards of Waipawa.

Valid: 7 hours from 9:00am to 4:00pm Monday
Forecast: Rain, heavy at times. Expect a further 40 to 70mm to accumulate on top of what has already fallen. Peak intensities about 10mm per hour.

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2063 days ago

Daylight savings ends this weekend

Neighbourly from Neighbourly.co.nz

Make sure you don't get caught out.

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2065 days ago

Kia ora Aotearoa, today is Gumboot Friday! 👢

The Team from Neighbourhood Support New Zealand

For many, having depression is like walking through mud every day.

Walk in their shoes for a day: put on your gumboots, and donate if you can to help us provide free counselling to any kid in need.

Two thumbs up to our awesome team over at Neighbourhood Support Waitakere for supporting this … View more
For many, having depression is like walking through mud every day.

Walk in their shoes for a day: put on your gumboots, and donate if you can to help us provide free counselling to any kid in need.

Two thumbs up to our awesome team over at Neighbourhood Support Waitakere for supporting this year's campaign. 👍👍

#GumbootUpNZ

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