First Record for Taranaki's Panamax Port!
05:40:09 PM - 2007-11-28
PORT TARANAKI FIRST LONGEST VESSEL BERTH!
$20 Million Harbour Deeping Project in Port Taranaki New Zealand, has had its first longest vessel berth, on Saturday November 24th 2007 in it's Panamax Port .
Maersk Duffield 45,803 gross tonne container carrier, 289 metres broke the record for the longest vessel ever to berth at New Plymouth.
It all went smoothly, a very large crowd watch as it came in at Blyde Terminal at Port Taranaki and the captain was enjoying seeing all the people that as he entered the port, he gave several blasts on the horn to celebrate which was a bit unusual for the port, but it will live in the mermories of the crowd as the first longest vessel to berth in Port Taranaki..
Captain John Ireland was the Port Taranaki Pilot responsible for guiding the Vessel to berth.
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124th Annual Egmont A and P Show!
05:18:22 PM - 2007-11-18
EGMONT A and P SHOW - 2007!
Egmont A and P Show held its 124th annual show at the weekend 17-18 November at Hawera in South Taranaki.
There was a huge crowd, with very hot weather, it is one off the biggest events in South Taranaki where there were indoor and outdoor trade displays, sideshow alley, equestrian events, dairy cattle and home industries.
It was it's 50th year of being held on the present site, having been relocated from what is now known as
Hicks Park in Hawera.
In fact my Great Grandfather Edward Olson was gored by one of his own predigree bulls while preparing it for judging at the Egmont A and P Show, as a result of which he died on November 2nd 1893 at the age of 50 years, he was one of the early settlers at Egmont Village not far from New Plymouth.
The Equestrian events centre is of special news, for this year has been built a huge new 68 stall block, the second biggest in New Zealand. It cost $447.000, good news for future Equestrian events.
The Show's Home Industries competitions include flowers and horticulture, knitting, novelty, crafts, cooking and baking, model building and photography, plus stores which loved by the children , kittens, chickens, lambs, rabbits and mice, all something which most children cannot resist looking at. Also plenty of the traditional sideshows.
The livestock were of very high standard as usual, it would not be a agriculture show without them. Plus the wood chopping competitions, so much energy used up, it such hot weather. Jetboat rides on the lake were very popular as a good way to cool down in the heat of the day.
As for the vintage vehicles, such as the early crawler tractors, diggers, etc which were the way our early settlers set to work with everyday, and clear land to what we now know today as New Zealand.
These A and P shows sure bring back memories of the past. It is a good time now if you are reading this blog, to give thought to our ancestor for all the hard work they put into breaking our land into what it is now, for without them,
where would we be today?.
A special thanks to all those people that spend many hours of their time for no payment at all, restoring those much loved antiques of the past.
A very enjoyable day was had by all, still a few sunburnt bodies the next day as goes to show you can never have enough Sun Cream on in the heat of the day at the Egmont A and P Show November 17-18 2007
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Points About The Emissions Trading Scheme!
09:03:42 PM - 2007-11-06
DISAGREEMENTS ON CARBON TRADING!
A few points about Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
The New Zealand Government is consulting now on the "core design details" of its emissions trading scheme but an indepth analysis of such schemes finds them "ineffective and unjust".
The book, Carbon Trading, a critical conversation on climate change, privatisation and power, published by Sweden's
Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, argues persuasively that carbon-trading schemes will only prolong the world's dependence on fossil fuels.
The authors agree the main cause of global warming is rapidly increasing carbon-dioxide emissions. But they say that instead of reducing the extraction of fossil fuels and encouraging the development of alternative energy and other solutions to global warming, carbon-trading policies will actually prolong the world's dependence on oil, coal and gas.
They argue in plain terms, the big polluters will continue to pollute while paying a "fine" in the form of carbon credits costs and the world's poor, mainly in the southern hemisphere countries, will see their land disappear under forests, planted to offset emissions.
Here is another theory the book argues, it is fool hardy for New Zealand to continue to release the remaining stores of carbon held in underground deposits of oil, coal and gas into a world already overburdened with carbon. Such vast stores built up over millions of years can never be recaptured on the surface within trees and soil.
So Disagreements on Carbon Trading continues, it would be off great value for anyone interested in this subject on Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to take a look at this and read for themselves, as this is a Worldwide Problem.
It is available online: http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/carbonDDlow.pdf
Elsie Hagley
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