Me seeing all those carbon liveries

"I think it's easy for people who maybe don't always need that reassurance to just see it as a painted piece of road. But it does hold more significance than that." rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

DOC spent nearly half a million dollars to kill one stoat, via RNZ rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

in contention for headline of the year

The infrastructure minister has accused seabed mining company TTR of "being misleading" by calling a generic letter sent to 200 other organisations a "formal invite" to apply for fast-track approval. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

So far, the answer appears to largely be: mines. Fast-track bill: Which projects could be approved for quicker consent? rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says the role of ministers as decision-makers should be scrapped. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Wellington ick: people who toot in the tunnel

The only new money in the Budget earmarked for the environment will go towards resource management reforms, an area which so far has relaxed rules for natural protection. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

For Wellington to meet its targets, GW says it would need to make a 71 percent fare increase next year. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Found this gem while trawling Papers Past for a different story. It's from an account reprinted from the Sydney Herald in the Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle's "Notes of the Week" (28 September 1859).