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Why Hastings is losing its splash of flower power
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (284+ words) A familiar sign of summer in Hastings will be absent this year; there will be no hanging flower baskets in the city centre, Flaxmere and Mahora. There will be no baskets of flowers hanging from buildings and shop verandas in…...
I stood in a snow room for the good of my health. Here's what it was like
3+ week, 4+ day ago (773+ words) The snow room at the Hanmer Springs hot pools complex. As a kid of the Upper Waitaki hydro power scheme, snow was a regular feature of my Mackenzie Country childhood. Some winters it got so cold that if the fire…...