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Canterbury & South Island news:

Friday deadline on water conflicts. ECan councillors to explain themselves over potential conflicts of interest. (5 October, Stuff/The Press).

The CCC is talking down the cost of its potential liability for leaky homes, despite a report putting the cost of the problem nationally at $11.5 billion. (8 October, Stuff/The Press).

Christchurch: ULearn technology in education conference: Educators laud Govt's broadband vow - ultra-fast broadband internet access for schools. A digital education network to link all schools also being considered. (7 October, NZ Herald).

Points system to cut down public tree trouble. (8 October, Stuff /The Press).

Bus drivers 'encouraged' to use $3m lanes. First section of the CCC's bus lane in Papanui Rd opened yesterday. (8 October, Stuff/The press). More here. (5 October, CCC).

CTV article (interview with Spokes spokesperson Paul de Spa) on improving cycle safety in the city - in wake of the cycling smash in Auckland. (c. first 3 min segment of 9 min video, 29 September, Youtube/CTV/Spokes).

7000 Ellerslie tickets sold in the first month. (2 October, CCC).

Got a good name for city mall junction? Before 12 October. (CCC).

Montgomery Spur Reserve draft management plan closes 9 October.

Beca Heritage Week 2009: Starts 16 October. This year's theme is Doves and Defences: Discover Christchurch in Peace & Conflict. Brochure and website all go. (2 October, CCC).

Metro service improvements: From Monday, 2 November. Greater frequency, route extensions, more direct routes, and new services. Lots of routes are changing. Check them out - you may be affected. (Source: Metro, www.metro.co.nz).

Visit award winning farm this month. Supreme Award winner at this year’s Ballance Farm Environment Awards. (2 October, ECan).

Illegal dumping and burning of waste. Environment Court sentences Yaldhurst man to 150 hours community work. (2 October, ECan).

Banks Peninsula: Wild goat population on its last legs. (6 October, ECan).

West Coast: Licence lets giant miner get close to Kahurangi. (7 October, NZ Herald).

Otago Harbour: Hopes for restarting cockle beds along the South Island's east coast. (5 October, Otago Daily Times).

Queenstown Lakes: Trail network a growing legacy. (8 October, Otago Daily Times).

Catlins: Upgraded Waipapa lighthouse to open. “As the site of the worst civilian maritime disaster in New Zealand and one of the few lighthouse sites that have public access we expect there will be plenty of interest." (5 October, DOC).

Southland: Ancient creatures re-discovered in southern NZ. Phreatoicids. (5 October, Otago Daily Times).

Waitutu: Support for 1080 operation. (8 October, The Southland Times).

Whenua Hou/Codfish Island: Kakapo's surprising sexual exploits (plus video). (8 October, Otago Daily Times).

Chatham Islands: Conservation Board appointments. (1 October, DOC).

North Island & national:

Mining in parks:
Oil drives plans to mine national parks. Cosidering reversing a ban on mining to allow oil exploration in NZ's last great wilderness area, Fiordland. (5 October, David Williams/Stuff/The Press).

Mining plan earns international rebuke. "The news that a modern, comparatively wealthy nation such as NZ is prepared to exploit its resources in lands set aside for biodiversity sends a disturbing message to more populous poor countries." (5 October, David Williams/Stuff/The Press).

'Billions' under national parks. (5 October, Stuff/Dominion Post).

Minister rubbishes mining claims. (5 October, NZ Herald).

Save national parks for future - nature lovers. (6 October, Stuff/The Press).

Minister plays down park mining. (6 October, NZ Herald).

Mineral stocktake protesters post their thoughts. (8 October, Otago Daily Times).

Other news:
Air NZ chief blasts climate change 'circus'. (7 October, NZ Herald).

Groser plugs Key's 'global alliance' in Wall Street Journal. (7 October, NBR).

Smith: EPA should 'speed' consent process. (5 October, Stuff/The Timaru Herald).

Railway companies to bid for use of new rolling stock. "This move will ensure that while KiwiRail owns the trains, it is not necessarily the case that they operate the services." (5 October, NBR).

Opinion: Nuts to 1080 nutters, yes to bush and beef. (7 October, Dominion Post/Stuff).

Auckland: Serial polluter may face prison again. (3 October, NZ Herald).

Auckland: Food map offers rich pickings in the city. (5 October, NZ Herald).

Hunua Falls: Seal an unusual attraction, possibly way up river to escape orcas. (7 October, NZ Herald).

Tolaga Bay, Mahia: DOC concerned about people playing with dolphin Moko. (2 October, DOC).

East Coast: Traditional Maori medicine planting day. (23 September, DOC).

Manawatu: Te Rere Hau windfarm turbine noise set to cause dissent. (7 October, manawatu Standard/Stuff).

Sustainability awards for Landcare Research: Sustainable Business Network & Lincoln Envirotown Trust. (28 September, Landcare Research/Manaaki Whenua).

Urgent!: The Greens' Customs and Excise (Sustainable Timber) Amendment Bill: Concerned about palm oil?  Deforestation? The costs to indigenous people who depend on it? Loss of habitat for orangutan and other species? Climate change?
Write to John Key asking him to ban the import of unsustainable timber.
Address (free post) to: Hon John Key, Prime Minister, Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings.
Or send an e-card: John Key: Support the Sustainable Timber Bill. (Time is of the essence - it is likely to come before the House on 21 October).
If successful the Bill will require all wood coming into New Zealand to be certified legal and sustainable. To succeed in Parliament it is important the Government is made aware of the views of as many New Zealanders as possible. More information: www.greens.org.nz/rainforests.

Help for new cyclists to move away from car dependency. ACC sponsors a web site offering information on buying a bike, nutrition, exercises, riding, etc. Go to http://www.activesmart.co.nz/. Cycling section here. (Source: Spokes newsletter).

New LEARNZ Field trips:
Project Crimson (pohutakawa and southern rata restoration) 21 - 23 October.
Wetland Treasures (Ashburton Lakes) 4 - 6 November.
Cool Wind Farm (Antarctica) 12 - 20 November.
Blue Duck (Karamea) 18 - 20 November.
Background info & more here: www.learnz.org.nz. Supported by Ministry of Education.

NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants has a Sustainability Group. Meets monthly. Interesting topics. Sees accountants as powerful agents of change - encouraging, assisting and supporting sustainability. The Group welcomes members of the Institute and others with interests in sustainability from anywhere in NZ.

WWF's Earth Hour has created a new learning resource called Project
Lantern, designed to give children from New Zealand and all around the
globe the chance to show their vote for saving the earth from runaway
climate change. Handcrafted lanterns from schools around New Zealand will be collected and used in a public display in Wellington. They will then be
sent to Copenhagen for the crucial UN climate summit in December.Download your pack today from the WWF website www.wwf.org.nz.

Re-linked awards, submissions, consultations etc:

• Big Game hunting discussion document. Open for submissions till 23 November. (25 September, DOC).
  
  
• Exhibition (multi-media): "Greater Christchurch - there is a plan, we're on our way".  Showcases the Urban Development Strategy, adopted in 2007, which aims to protect water, enhance open spaces, improve transport links, create more liveable centres and manage population growth in a sustainable way.
  Where: Our City O-Tautahi, corner Worcester St and Oxford Tce.
  When: 10.00 - 4.00 pm, Mon-Sat, 22 September - 24 October. Free admission. (The UDS is a partnership of CCC, Waimakariri District Council, Selwyn District Council, ECan & the New Zealand Transport Agency).
  
  
• Bikes on buses extend to Northern Star routes. Also a list of bus routes that take bikes now. More to come in November. It's free to take your bike on the bus. (Source: www.metroinformation.org.nz).
  
  
• Cast a vote: Forest & Bird poll for Bird of the Year. Also: 2009 Garden bird survey: interim results (www.landcareresearch.co.nz).
  
  
• Submissions wanted: The Northern Pegasus Bay Management Plan: Waimakariri & Hurunui District Councils are releasing draft bylaws to control the use of vehicles and horses and the use of land for camping on the foreshore, beaches and adjacent areas of Northern Pegasus Bay from north of the mouth of the Waimakariri river to the Rocks area of Amberley Beach. Hurunui proposals open for submissions until October 30 and Waimakariri submissions open from September 26 to October 27.
  
  
• Entries for 2010 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards close 23 October. Entry forms/more info: www.bfea.org.nz or contact: Nicola Hunt, Canterbury Regional Co-ordinator, Ballance Farm Environment Awards, (03) 353 9711, email bfea@ecan.govt.nz.
  
  
• Feel the Heat Petition. Take action on Climate Change. (www.oxfam.org.nz).
  Also:
  Sign on. There's no planet B. Sign On (More than 110,000 NZers so far). (www.signon.org.nz).
  
  
• Have your say: current CCC consultations.
  
  
• Love it or lose it: save our heritage places. No government has the right to deprive our children of our most treasured places and native species. Download the petition, send a message to PM. (The Green Party's anti-mining webpage).
  
  
• Nominations for the 2009 Roger Award for the worst transnational corporation operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand close 31 October. More info/entry forms: here. (CAFCA).
  
  
• Neighbourhood week: CCC provides resources and limited financial support to local groups, & even individuals, who would like to get to know their neighbours.
  When: 31 October - 8 November. More at: www.ccc.govt.nz/programmes.

& from there

• China leads accusation that rich nations are trying to sabotage climate treaty. (4 October, The Guardian).
  
  
• US: The Yes Men reveal their next big stunt. (2 October, grist).
  
  
• Interview with Saddad al Husseini, former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco: "The facts are there." Future of oil markets. (28 September, Energy Bulletin).
  
  
• US: Corcoran Gallery of Art curator's introduction to the exhibition titled "Edward Burtynski: Oil". (c 1min 48 video clip, vimeo.com).
  
  
• Africa: The great drought. Disaster looms in East Africa. "If I was young I would go to look for cash work. I am old. I may just die with my animals." (3 October, The Independent).
  
  
• UN: Warns of 70 per cent desertification by 2025. (4 October, The Inedpendent).
  
  
• Africa: Can one woman save Africa? When does planting a tree become a revolutionary act – and unleash an army of gunmen who want to shoot you dead? The answer to this question lies in the unlikely story of Wangari Maathai. (28 September, The Independent).
  
  
• US: Could food shortages bring down civilisation? Lester Brown. (30 September, Countercurrents.org).
  
  
• US/Africa: Under the Clinton Global Initiative, Growing Power takes its grass-roots agriculture model to Africa. (28 September, Grist).
  
  
• Israel: Kibbutz Lotan. An oasis in a desert where it never rains. (4 October, Treehugger).
  
  
• UK: Far foods. “Alternative packaging for supermarket produce, highlighting the distances that some foods travel from and the resultant carbon dioxide released during the journey. The receipt features a boarding card style tear-off strip.” Single image. (Designverb.com).
  
  
• UK: Garden writer and television presenter calls on gardeners to stop diligent digging and weeding and let nature take its own course. (3 October, telegraph.co.uk).
  
  
• 13 Great vegetarians from history. Slideshow with notes. (2 October, Treehugger).
  
  
• UK: Bikes and trains - a new initiative for England. (30 september, eco worldly).
  
  
• Canada/US: Bicycles for humanity: Donate bikes, change lives. (3 October, Treehugger).
  
  
Technology:

• Cleantech: Number one in world wide venture capital investments. (2 October, CleanTechnica).
  
  
• US: Rocket company tests world's most powerful ion engine. Could lay the groundwork for rockets that could one day travel to Mars in about a month. (5 October, New Scientist).
  
  
• US: Carbon nanotubes: may power ultra capacitor car. Fast charge/discharge cycles and an essentially unlimited number of cycles. (30 September, ars Technica).
  
  Natural world:
  
• Post-human earth. How the planet will recover from us. (30 September, New Scientist).
  
  
• India: Hundreds of dinosaur eggs found. Could be 65 million years old. (1 October, BBC).
  
  
• Australia: Stress is pushing the koala to extinction. (1 October, The Inedpendent).
  
  
• Afghanistan: Saving Afghanistan's wildlife. (7 October, New Scientist).
  
  

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• Community planting day: Horseshoe Lake Reserve restoration project.

  Planting native trees & shrubs into regenerating native bush & wildlife habitat.
  When: 10.00 - 12.00 pm Sunday, 11 Oct.
  Where: Near 1 Broomfield Terrace, Horseshoe Lake Reserve. (Entry from Broomfield Tce, opp. Burwood Park North - look for the signs).
  Bring: Family, friends & a spade. BBQ afterwards.
  Info/contact: Robin 982 1028, or 021 121 3304; or Steven 941 8256 or 027 482 1453.
  Organised by Transport & Greenspace Unit, CCC.
  Trees donated by Trees for Canterbury.
  
  

• The second Rolleston Envirotown Market for produce and crafts.

  Fruits & vegetables, water cress, meat, honey, free range eggs, plants, lavender products, crafts ...& much more.
  When: 10.00 - 1.00 pm Sunday, 11 Oct. (2nd Sunday of the month).
  Where: Rolleston Square (off Rolleston Drive).
  More info/contact: Catherine 347 8240; or Nicole tonicermu@gmail.com (with Rolleston Envirotown Market in the subject box).
  
  

• Transition Forum:

  Exchange of ideas, plans, actions for an orderly descent.
  When: 12.30 pm Tuesday, 13 Oct. (Open 12.00 pm for lunch & saying hi).
  Where: St Albans Community Centre, 1047 Colombo St.
  More info/contact: 374 2465.
  
  

• Talk/seminar: A free digital society.

  To make a digital society worth belonging to we need to overcome six threats to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War on Sharing.
  Speaker: Richard M Stallman (launched the development of the GNU operating system
  www.gnu.org in 1984)
  When: 5.00 - 7.00 pm Tuesday, 13 Oct.
  Where:  A1 Lecture Theatre,Arts block, University of Canterbury. (map here).
  Sponsor: Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury.
  
  

• Lyttelton Lecture Series: The influence of place on arts.

  Lyttelton's endeavours in the areas of history, environment and culture.
  Speakers: Joe Bennett, Cheryl Lucas, Stephen McCarthy.
  When: 7.00 - 8.30 pm Tuesday, 13 Oct.
  Where: University of Canterbury, venue on payment. ($10). Students free.
  More info/contact/register: Here.
  Organised by: Project Lyttelton & UC Community Education.
  
  

• Course: Practical organic home gardening.

  Soil life, compost, worms, Bokashi & liquid fertilisers; permaculture; pests and diseases; raised beds, square foot gardens; crop rotation, companion planting & intercropping; community gardening & community building.
  Tutor: Lily White.
  When: 6.00 - 7.30 pm 6 Wednesdays, starts 14 October.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St.
  Cost: $32.00.
  Contact/register: 366 0285 or cwea.
  
  

• Wednesday nights at the WEA. What about the workers?

  When: 5.30 pm (free tea & coffee); 6.00 pm for presentation and discussion.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St.
  Gold coin donation.
  
  

• Forest & Bird talk: The High Country: Threats to New Zealand’s unique tussock grasslands.

  Speaker: Sue Maturin, Forest & Bird Otago and Southland Field Officer.
  When: 7.30 pm Wednesday, 14 October.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St.
  
  

• South Canterbury farm visit/field day: at Nick & Michelle Ward's, Supreme Award winners at this year’s Ballance Farm Environment Awards, Canterbury region.

  Tillage systems, developing new crops, financial management, the benefits of soil structure...the Wards’ focus is on small scale specialist production.
  When: 10.30 - 3.30 pm Friday, 16 October.Where: Rhys Farm, 693 Milford Clandeboye Rd, Temuka.
  More info/contact: r.hayes@slingshot.co.nz or (03) 318 1707.
  
  

• Public demonstration/march: Hurunui Dam Busters.

  Help fight plans to ruin the last wild river in Canterbury. Help highlight the importance of this issue to the people of Canterbury. Join   kayakers, anglers, jet boaters, whitebaiters, trampers, conservationists,  hunters, artists and
  everyone else keen to see the Hurunui protected  for present and future  generations.
  Speakers (at conclusion of the march): Russell Norman MP, & Rosalie Snoyink, anti-CPW stalwart.
  When: 12.15 pm Friday, 16 October.
  Where: Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel St. & a
  walk alongside the Avon to Victoria Square.
  More here: dambusters homepage. (www.completeangler.co.nz)
  
  

• Sustainable living course at New Brighton.

  Six sessions.
  When: 11.00am - 1.30 pm Saturdays, 17 Oct; & 7 , 14 , 21, 28 Nov; & 5 Dec.
  Contact/more info/register: George Aorangi (available Tues &Thurs, or leave phone message) at New Brighton Community Garden  3886506, or nbgardens@xtra.co.nz. 
  
  

• Workday: Travis Wetland.

  When: 9.00 - c12.00 pm Saturday, 17 Oct. (3rd Sat each month).
  Where: Meet at carpark, end of Beach Rd.
  More info/contact: www.traviswetland.org.nz.
  Organisers: Travis Wetland Trust.
  
  

• Orari Gorge alder removal day.

  When: From 9.00 am Sunday, 18 October.
  All (with loppers, gumboots) welcome. BBQ lunch to follow.
  More info/contact: here (http://ecan.govt.nz).
  Also: Here. (Timaru Herald/Stuff)
  
  

• Work days: Quail Island Restoration Trust planting days.

  When: Sunday, 18 October.
  (Ferry leaves Lyttelton 9.20 am and returns 3.30 pm).
  Booking essential.
  Contact: Ian McLennan ph 384 5338 or id.mclennan@xtra.co.nz.
  Background info: www.quailisland.org.nz
  
  

• Open days: CCC Waste.

  - Christchurch waste water treatment plant
  - Organics plant.
  - Recycling plant.
  When: 10.00 - 3.00 pm Sunday, 18 Oct.
  Where, etc: see brochure here.
  
  

• Garden visit & discussion: Soil & Health Association.

  From a virtually empty section 20 years ago, a unique garden that combines a love of native plants with the desire for food production. Learn more about edible landscaping and no-dig gardening methods. A limited number of seedlings for sale on the day.
  When: 2.00 pm Sunday, 18 October.
  Where: 48 Neville St, Spreydon
  Cost: Members free, Non-members $2.00
  Contact/inof: Dave 366 0628.
  

• EARTHWISE, Plains FM 96.9

  Each Monday & Wednesday at 9.00 pm.
  Conservation, environment and peace with justice.
  This week: Forest & Bird's Chris Todd and Dean Baigent-Mercer warn about the possibility of mining on National Park land.
  
• Also: John Pilger's essay, that the same people whose lies about Iraq led to that war, are now lying about Iran.
• Also: A David Rovics anti-war song.
  Presenters: Martin and Lois Griffiths.
  NB: Listen again to Earthwise programmes on archive.
  

Coming up:

• Talk & slideshow presentation: The life and legacy of Rachel Carson.

  An informal discussion about her contribution and her ideals.
  Background info: www.rachelcarson.org.
  Presenter: Barbara Yoffee, Environmental Education specialist, Rachel Carson Council, Boys and Girls Club of America.
  When: 4.30 - 6.00 pm Tuesday, 20 Oct.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St.
  Contact/RSVP (for catering): Jocelyn Jocelyn.Paprill@ecan.govt.nz.
  Organised by: NZAEE Christchurch Branch & Barbara Yoffee.
  
  

• Lyttelton Lecture series: Lyttelton Port in times of peace & conflict.

  Speaker: Geoffrey Rice, Prof & Head of History, University of Canterbury.
  When: 7.00 - 8.00 pm Tuesday, 20 Oct.
  Where: University of Canterbury, (venue on payment).
  Cost: $10.00.
  More info/contact/register: Here.
  Sponsors: Lyttelton Port Company, ECan, CCC Creative Communities.
  
  

• AGM: Travis Wetland Trust.

  Guest speaker: Vicky Steele, Trustee, Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust, on threats to our native species & a potential habitat improvement for Travis Wetland to encourage native butterflies into the area.
  When: 7.00 pm Tuesday, 20 October.
  Where: Education Centre, at the end of Beach Road.
  All welcome, supper to follow.
  Contact: info@traviswetland.org.nz
  
  

• Public talk: Beyond the frontier - William Pickering, deep space pioneer.

  An exploration of his life and work.
  Speaker: Douglas Mudgway, NZ, space historian, independent history consultant for NASA on deep space interplanetary communications. More here.
  When: 7.30 pm Tuesday, 20 October.
  Where: Lounge Bar, Dux de Lux, Arts centre.
  Organisers: IPENZ (Inst of Professional Engineers of NZ).
  
  

• Talk: Lincoln Efford Memorial Lecture:

  Humanity's Challenge for the Future.
  Speaker: Peter Williams QC.
  When: 7.30 pm Wednesday, 21 October.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St.
  Please phone the WEA to register for this free event 366 0285.
  
  

• Geology course: Our New Zealand landscape.

  Using examples from around NZ, this illustrated lecture course will explain the geological processes which have been, and are still, involved in forming our current landscape.
  Presenter: Alexa Cameron, retired, former lecturer in Geology, University of Canterbury.
  When: 10.30 - 12.00 pm. 5 Wednesdays. Starts 21 October.
  Cost: $24.00.
  Where: WEA, 59 Goloucester St.
  More info: www.cwea.org.nz (#10).
  Contact/register: WEA 366 0285.
  
  

• Talk series: Peace People.

  5 weekly lectures and discussion.
  First week's speaker: Will Foote, WWII conscientious objector.
  When: 1.00 - 2.30 pm Wednesdays, starts 21 October.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St.
  Cost: $20.00.
  Contact/register: CWEA, 366 0285 or see here.
  
  

• Course: Sustainable Living. (5 Sessions).
  

  Are you ready for a different future? An energy-saving, home food-growing, generally fitter and less wasteful lifestyle is fun and very relevant in today's harder times.
  When: 1.00 - 3.00 pm starts Thursday, 29 October.
  Where: WEA, 59 Gloucester St. (opp. City Art Galley)
  Contact/register: 366 0285 or see here. (#19).
  
  

• Wellington event: Camp for climate action: Team up, get trained, take action.

  Seeks to address the real causes of climate change & build a people's movement that can and will stop disastrous climate change.
  When: 16 - 21 December, 2009.
  Where: Wellington.
  More info/contact: www.climatecamp.org.nz.
  
  

• NZAEE Biennial Conference: Te Ahu Whakamua - Taking the next steps.

  When: 19 - 22 January 2010.
  Where: Hawkes Bay.
  Registrations now open.
  Much more info/contact/registrations: here. (www.nzaeeconference2010.co.nz).
  NZAEE: NZ Association for Environmental Education.
  

Reminders:

• 350.org: Global Day of Action, 24 October.

  Choir - Join 349 other singers at Victoria Square (in front of the Plaza Hotel) 2.00 pm, for 2.30 start, 24 October, to sing a set of easy to learn songs (with an opportunity to practice before going 'live').
  Contact: Jocelyn jyc497@gmail.com so you
  can be kept informed of arrangements. Thanks to those who have already
  been in contact.
  Also:
  
• Ideas, volunteers, and donations needed for the Global day of Action on the 24th October (and plenty of action building up to it!)
  If you are concerned about Climate Change, now is the time to do something.
  Want to join in?  Already being planned - Dawn celebration, massed choir, massive bike cavalcade, & more - see: www.350.org.nz
  Christchurch link here.
  or contact: Torfrida 382-0580 or 021-107-3937 or torfrida@snap.net.nz.
  

• Free home composting workshops:

  Hot composting of kitchen scraps & garden waste, Bokashi and worm farms. All methods demonstrated.
  At several sites:
  1. Seven Oaks Education Centre, 35 Hassals Lane. 1.00 - 2.30 pm each Saturday.
  2. Okeover Community Garden - University of Canterbury, Engineering Road. (Map here). 12.00 - 1.30 pm each Wednesday.
  3. Lyttelton Community Garden, 54A Oxford Street, 10.30 – 12.00 pm each Saturday.
  More info/contact: Annmarie 021 190 4559 or 942 7190 (evenings).
  Supported by CCC.
  
  

• Gardening courses: starting a garden, seed saving, composting, pickling & preserving, etc.

  Where: Strickland Street Community Garden, 188 Strickland Street, Spreydon. 
  When: for times & dates see their website www.sscommunitygarden.net.nz.
  Further info/contact: 942 6630.
  Supported by CCC.