Day 25 Oamaru holiday workout
Here is a holiday workout for you today - 5 exercises to go through 4 rounds. Great views over Shag Point near Oamaru!
Happy 4th Birthday House of Breakthrough Oamaru
Dredging project generating a range of responses
Public opinion is being sought for Port Otago's harbour dredging project.
The company wants to extend its consent to dump excess material around the harbour.
And that's generating a range of responses from residents.
Infrastructure upgrades to boost business at Port Otago
Harbour dredging and other expansion work at Port Otago is well under way.
The $30m infrastructure upgrade is aimed at boosting harbour traffic.
But it won't be finished in time for the busy tourist season.
Automotive industry in New Zealand | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:24 1 First automobiles
00:05:11 2 Early indigenous cars
00:08:35 3 Level of car ownership
00:09:32 4 Impact of legislation
00:10:44 4.1 America's domination
00:13:10 4.2 Cars from Britain
00:14:54 4.3 Australia and Japan
00:17:42 4.4 Used imports
00:18:28 5 Assembly process
00:19:39 6 Assembly plants
00:22:03 6.1 1922 Colonial Motor Company
00:23:48 6.2 1926 General Motors
00:26:53 6.3 1931 Rover
00:29:20 7 Government action
00:30:51 7.1 Completely knocked down
00:32:10 7.2 Import quotas by value
00:37:33 8 Assembly plants continued
00:37:43 8.1 1935 Todd Motors
00:40:23 8.2 1936 Ford Motor Company
00:41:12 8.3 New Zealand Motor Corporation
00:42:31 8.3.1 1936 Motor Assemblies
00:45:33 8.3.2 1937 Seabrook Fowlds
00:47:05 8.3.3 1939 Austin South Island
00:48:10 8.3.4 1939 Dominion Motors
00:50:50 9 Second World War
00:53:35 10 No-remittance licences
00:54:53 11 Assembly plants continued
00:55:03 11.1 1946 Austin Distributors Federation
00:55:28 11.1.1 1946 Associated Motor Industries and Austin Distributors Federation
00:56:13 11.2 1958 Motor Holdings
00:57:40 11.3 1964 Steel Brothers
01:00:19 11.4 1964 Campbell Motor Industries
01:03:09 12 New Zealand Motor Bodies
01:03:19 13 1970 Nissan
01:03:34 14 Components industry
01:04:38 15 Location of assembly plants
01:05:12 16 A snapshot of the industry 1966
01:11:20 17 Japanese Cars
01:13:54 17.1 iOther makes/i
01:15:07 18 New Zealand assembled 1967
01:15:45 19 NZIER review 1971
01:17:39 19.1 Demise of the assembly plants
01:19:11 20 Second Hand Imports and Left Hand Drive vehicles
01:20:58 21 Local manufacturers
01:21:07 21.1 From Trekka to date
01:24:54 21.2 Alternative fuel vehicle development
01:27:29 21.3 Kit cars and replicas
01:30:53 22 New vehicles registered and used imports registered
01:31:09 23 Museums and collections
01:31:47 24 See also
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The automotive industry in New Zealand supplies a market which has always had one of the world's highest car ownership ratios. The distributors of new cars are essentially the former owners of the assembly businesses. At the dealership level they have maintained their old retail chains in spite of the establishment of the many new independent businesses built since the 1980s by specialists in used imports from Japan. Toyota entered into direct competition with those used-import businesses refurbishing old Toyotas from Japan and selling them through their own dealers as a special line. The nation's car fleet is accordingly somewhat older than in most developed countries.
New Zealand no longer assembles passenger cars. Assembly plants closed after tariff protection was removed and distributors found it cheaper to import cars fully assembled. Cars had been assembled at a rate nearing 100,000 a year in 1983 but with the country's economic difficulties their numbers dropped sharply. Towards the end of the decade the removal of various restrictions as part of the nation's restructuring of its economy made available low-priced old used cars from Japan. These used cars met the local need for high ownership levels in a financially straitened world but since that time continue to arrive in such large numbers they substantially increase the average age of the nation's fleet.
Toyota, Ford, and General Motors Holden division still dominate the new car market. The tiny home market—the size of a large city— and distance from potential export customers worked with first-world pay rates against the formation of any significant indigenous manufacturers. Only small boutique kit and replica car firms were able to survive. They produce original kit and replica cars using locally-made car bodies and imported componentry for both the local and international markets. Several ...
South Island | Wikipedia audio article
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South Island
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The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers 150,437 square kilometres (58,084 sq mi), making it the world's 12th-largest island. It has a temperate climate.
It has a 32 percent larger landmass than the North Island so is sometimes referred to as the mainland of New Zealand, especially by South Island residents, but only 23 percent of New Zealand's 4.9 million inhabitants live there. In the early stages of European (Pākehā) settlement of the country, the South Island had the majority of the European population and wealth due to the 1860s gold rushes. The North Island population overtook the South in the early 20th century, with 56 percent of the population living in the North in 1911, and the drift north of people and businesses continued throughout the century.
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott, CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a UK Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain, where opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers. It was the chance for personal distinction and financial pressure that led Scott to apply for the Discovery command, rather than any predilection for polar exploration. However, having taken this step, his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final twelve years of his life.
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