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It will soon be harder to obtain a motor vehicle driver’s licence than it is to qualify as a private pilot, says the Federated Farmers.
Environment Waikato is working with landowners at a new subdivision in north Hamilton to deal with one of the largest infestations of alligator weed the city has seen.
Fonterra has confirmed that all staff in Chile have been safely accounted for, including those who were on leave at the time of the earthquake.
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The farm is dry, production is dropping and what rain that hits our region seems to fall in a horse shoe fashion right around our farm completely missing us. As I write, the promise of thunderstorms looms and we wait in hope.
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