Annabel Reid
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Obituary: The ‘mad professor’ who changed sawmilling from his backyard (opens the original)
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Carl Peterson, founder of Peterson Sawmills, died on September 11, aged 80. Carl Peterson turned garage sale scraps into an invention in 1988 that changed sawmilling around the world. His daughter, Kerris Browne, said creating the first commercial portable swingblade sawmill became her father’s “legacy”, enabling people in 1989 to mill their own logs into valuable timber. She is proud now of his achievements, but as a teenager she said she was mortified watching the “mad professor” build the con
Regional supermarket owner left feeling 'physically sick' by Foodstuffs split idea (opens the original)
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Pak'nSave Rotorua. National wants to split Foodstuff's Pak'nSave brands from its New World and Four Square brands. Photo / Andrew Warner National’s plan to split supermarket collective Foodstuffs in two has left one regional Pak’nSave owner feeling “physically sick” and another “bewildered”. National announced on Wednesday that it wanted to split Foodstuff’s brands into two nationwide supermarket chains - Pak’nSave in one, and New World and Four Square the other - if the Commerce Commission foun
WATCH: 'Surely not': Humpback whale spotted in busy BoP harbour (opens the original)
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A rare visit from a humpback whale to Tauranga Harbour gave marina staff a lunchtime surprise yesterday. Tauranga Bridge Marina operations manager Anna Barnes was working when a colleague called to say a large humpback whale was nearby. Her first thought was that it must be an orca chasing a stingray – a more common sight in the harbour. Barnes ran to the waterfront and realised her colleague was right. She said the whale lingered in the harbour north of the marina, near a State Highway 2 bridge
'Cannot be replaced': Man offers $1k reward for stolen rare board games (opens the original)
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Nguyen Nhat Huy is offering $1000 to get part of his “rare” Marvel United board game collection back. Nhat Huy Nguyen is offering a $1000 reward to get part of his “rare” Marvel United board game collection back. The Rotorua resident said he lost “three years of memories” when about $14,000 worth of belongings were stolen from his Ranolf St home in August. “I don’t want to ask any questions about where you found them or how you got them,” Nguyen wrote on a Facebook community page. “I just want t
Rotorua polytechnic brings back fees-free year of study for school leavers (opens the original)
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Pim Borren, the chief executive of Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, says the institute is making a significant investment in its Rotorua campus. Toi Ohomai is offering school leavers nationwide a year of free course fees if they study at Rotorua’s Mokoia campus. The initiative comes as the polytechnic looks to reverse falling enrolments and attract more young people into tertiary education. Chief executive Pim Borren said there were “too many barriers” preventing school leavers from accessing
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