Farm|Finance
New jetboat experience on Kawarau River
By WILL HINE in Queenstown - The Southland Times
A bright orange Thunder Jet jetboat was yesterday making waves on the Kawarau River, four days after Maritime New Zealand cleared the way for it to begin business.
Two southern businesses in finals
The Southland Times
A Queenstown recruitment agency and a southern enterprise group have been named as finalists in the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards for 2009.
Mt Aspiring Hotel applies for consent change
By GLENDA TURNBULL - The Southland Times
Owners of the Mt Aspiring Hotel have applied to alter their resource consent, for the fourth time, to construct a two-level accommodation building within the existing complex.
Finance firm pulls plug on credit line
By DYLAN THORNE - The Southland Times
A Southland company has had its credit line for customers cut after South Canterbury Finance decided it was providing too few agreements.
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Top prize to breeder Abby Smith
Wyndham A & P Show
By DIANE BISHOP - The Southland Times
Young stud breeder Abby Smith won the ultimate prize at the Wyndham A & P Show on Saturday.
Wyndham A&P; Show results
Bad debts and financial arrangements
The Southland Times
Following on from last week's article on bad debts in respect of trade debts, this week I discuss bad debts in relation to financial arrangements, writes Murray McClennan in this week's Taxing Times.
In hard times, writing off bad debt is more than likely
Tendency is to cut back on spending
The Southland Times
Retailers have been doing it tough since the middle of last year and there is little reason to believe 2009 is going to deliver any great bonus for the retailing sector, writes Tony Alexander this week.
To contract or not to contract? That is the question for farmers
Southland
Information on pricing of lamb contracts is still thin on the ground, even Agridata is having issues, writes Graham Butcher in this week's Rural Solutions.
Worker crushed at Fonterra plant
A teenage construction worker is in Southland Hospital after he was crushed by a concrete slab at Fonterra's Edendale dairy factory.
Fonterra defends milkpowder auction system
Stop working and play but never lose touch
By JOHN HICKS - Southland
This column is titled Vet Talk but, since it started a few years back, its writer has passed his one hundredth contribution and retired from active participation in veterinary life, writes John Hicks in this week's Vet Talk.
Investors stick with Strategic
By JAMES WEIR - The Dominion Post | 05:00AM
Strategic Finance chief executive Kerry Finnigan will continue to run the failed finance company on about $10,000 a week for at least the first year of its five-year moratorium.
- Winter's circles span the globe
- Holiday drinks end in tragedy
- Topless teen shots prompt investigation
- Prank threats terrify workers
- Injured man possibly in car for hours
- Man urinated on ex-partner's bed
- Herd of sheep? More in south flock to cows
- New jetboat experience on Kawarau River
- Touch melee pair appear in court
- Man crushed under 1-tonne slab on Edendale construction site
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