Surging oil prices and the impact of devastating earthquakes in Christchurch and Japan have prompted Air Zealand to issue a profit warning.
Tourism is in for a short, sharp shock as fewer people visit New Zealand after the earthquakes in Japan and Christchurch and Genesis Energy says customers have no one to blame but themselves when electricity prices spiked last Saturday.
The Christchurch-based insurer, AMI, says it won't be until June next year before it knows the final cost of earthquake claims, though the company's confident it won't need to draw on the government's backstop support package.
Farmers and rural businesses have been combining their efforts to bring desperately needed fresh water supplies to earthquake shattered Christchurch.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 3 July 2011 entitled, "Salisbury Street Scenes".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Temporary food caravan, Bealey Avenue".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Temporary coffee shop in Montreal Street".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 15 June 2011 entitled, "Groundhog Day".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 2 August 2011 entitled, "New Light".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 October 2011 entitled, "Absent from the Arts Centre".
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