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• 1.新西兰英语 772 Housing in the Budget
• Yesterday, the Minister of Finance, Bill English, read the Budget in Parliament. One important matter in the Budget was a plan to bring down house pri...
• 2.新西兰英语 771 Budget money for water storage
• First, listen to March 4th 2013 to hear about drought on farms this past summer. The Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy said that in the long...
• 3.新西兰英语 770 House demolitions in Christchurch
• CERA (the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority) started demolishing houses in the Christchurch residential red zones last year. Already 2,074 hous...
• 4.新西兰英语 769 Bluff Oyster Festival
• Today was the annual Oyster Festival in Bluff, Southland. More than 4,000 people attended to eat oysters raw or cooked and to watch competitions: to s...
• 5.新西兰英语 768 Open-Cast Coal Mine
• Last week, the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, gave permission for a new open-cast coal mine on conservation land on the West Coast. The Environ...
• 6.新西兰英语 767 60 years since Mt Everest success
• Sixty years ago today, two men reached the summit of Mt Everest, the highest mountain in the world. They were the first people to do this and return a...
• 7.新西兰英语 766 Deadline for red zone homeowners
• 5pm today was the deadline for Christchurch owners of homes in the residential red zone. They had to accept CERAs offer for their property by 5pm toda...
• 8.新西兰英语 765 Aluminium Smelter
• The aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point near Invercargill opened in 1971. It had a contract to buy cheap electricity, generated by hydro-electricity from...
• 9.新西兰英语 764 South Island lakes need rain
• This morning, New Zealanders had an extra hour in bed because we turned our clocks back. Summer time is finished. Already, we can feel the mornings an...
• 10.新西兰英语 763 Law to stop protests at sea
• Parliament is discussing a new Crown Minerals Bill at the moment. The Crown (which means the government) owns any oil, gas or other mineral resources ...