Magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes 25km east of New Plymouth. RNZ. 3 October 2026.
TIME100 Next 2026: The World's Most Influential Rising Stars — Shoko Kawata
Japan mayor who took maternity leave named to Time’s list of most influential. Japan Times. Oct 1, 2026. Photo of mother and baby.
‘I didn’t expect it to be so controversial’: Shoko Kawata, the Japanese mayor who took maternity leave. The Guardian. 18 Jun 2026. Previous post.
Starshipit reached the Series A milestone without ever needing a Series A. B2B News. September 28, 2026.
Letterboxd Sees Acquisition Interest From A24, Sony and the New York Times. NY Times. Sept. 24, 2026. The other headline for NYT article: Letterboxd Considers a Sequel Under New Ownership.
As Letterboxd Draws Interest From The New York Times, A24 And More, One Of Its Bankers Calls It “A Phenomenon”. Deadline. September 24, 2026.
Stop waiting for a foreign hero: NZ’s supermarket sector needs competition from within. March 18, 2025.
There are others but older pieces written wrtNZ supermarkets.
Article was written after data breaches at Mathspace, ZenTech and Thankyou Payroll.
Mathspace is an Australian edutech company used by schools in both Australia and NZ.
Thankyou Payroll is a payroll company. They use Metabase, which describes itself as "Open source AI analytics". Metabase had a breach.
ZenTech or Zenith Technology is a NZ clinical trial company. Breach affects sensitive health information of health trial participants.
Today Hatch Invest NZ informed their customers of breach.
Two fish and a scoop: a social history. RNZ. 21 March 2017. Post. Author interview. Book: Two Fish And A Scoop: A Social History of Fish and Chips in New Zealand by Te Awhina Arahanga.
History with Dr Grant Morris: Fish and chips in Aotearoa. RNZ. 24 August 2023. Audio only. Thinks there's vague mentions in Charles Dicken's writing (a 'fried fish warehouse' in Oliver Twist. see next link)
150 years of fish and chips. NZ Herald. 4 Nov, 2010. ODT copy. Article about origins in UK.
Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Fish & Chips in Wikipedia and Britannica
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If you spot a fur seal or sea lion on or near a road—or in an unusual inland spot—let us know! Your sightings will help shape the initial national road risk model and guide future conservation planning.
📧 Email: seeaseal@doc.govt.nz and report your sighting there.
OR
📞 Call: 0800 DOC HOT (362 468), if you see a sea lion or fur seal in distress, harm’s way or entangled, stranded, or deceased.
📍 Include:
Please also report the same details for any dead marine mammals you find on or near roads, and if you’ve seen them in the same place before, let us know when.
Above text from Doc's blog: Seal Silly Season: help us keep young seals safe on 05/06/2025.
>Hoon Hay Kiwi Bakery is offering three types of horse pie today: plain, horse and cheese, and curried horse.
Christchurch bakery beats the neigh-sayers as horse pies sell out. 1news. Sep 3, 2026.
In Auckland earlier this year:
Horse meat pies back on the menu at Auckland bakery. RNZ. 20 April 2026.
Auckland bakery pulls horse meat pies after council visit. RNZ. 26 January 2026. Republished by stuff and posted here.
SPCA certified site:
MPI has Code of Welfare: Meat Chickens or others can be found at All animal welfare codes.
What will Warkworth to Te Hana cost us? And other burning questions. Greater Auckland. August 3, 2026. Post.
Warkworth To Te Hana PPP Signed. Press Release: New Zealand Government. 30 July 2026. Scoop.
That doesn't include those still going but have reduced their staff (or reduced hours employment available). Example of one of those:
SkyCity to cut 200 to 250 jobs, mainly in Auckland, ponders Adelaide sale. NZ Herald. 20 Aug, 2026.
Unemployment and Labour market statistics:
Nasa’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she? The Conversation. August 28, 2026.
Dr Nancy Grace Roman (1925 - 2018) – NASA Science - Britannica – Wikipedia