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Paeroa woman Wei Zhang has been crowned the country’s second-best chilli-eater. Photo: KELLEY TANTAU

Chilli-eater turns up the heat at nationals

Post author:Geoff Sanders
Post published:June 8, 2021
Post category:June 2021

It was the chowing down on one of the world’s hottest chillies at a Ngatea barbecue festival that propelled Wei Zhang on to the national stage of spice.Now, she’s been…

For her service to the community and culture of Kiribati, her home country, Thames woman Louisa Humphry was named an Honorary Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Photo: KELLEY TANTAU

Kiribati services honoured

Post author:Teresa Ramsey
Post published:June 6, 2021
Post category:June 2021

Louisa Humphry travelled more than 4000km across the Pacific to start her life in New Zealand.But home was never far behind.For her service to the community and culture of Kiribati,…

Elixr creators, back from left, Jade Dent-Bowering, Brooke Samuels, and Natasha Otto, and front left, Imogen Bjerring and Fairven Harris. Photo: SUPPLIED

Hauraki business students find their cup of tea

Post author:Geoff Sanders
Post published:June 2, 2021
Post category:June 2021

Entrepreneurial Hauraki students have brewed up a tea just in time for the winter season.Jade Dent-Bowering, Brooke Samuels, Natasha Otto, Imogen Bjerring, and Fairven Harris, from Hauraki Plains College, have…

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