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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government would initiate a formal investigation into a new National Park on Stewart Island by inviting the New Zealand Conservation Authority t

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Government would be investing $5 million, over the next two years, in 23 schools throughout New Zealand to lead the information technology rev

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith is angry at signs of kukupa (New Zealand woodpigeon) poaching early in the fruiting season and said the Department of Conservation was already receiving information

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  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith, in his first major education speech, to the Secondary Principals Conference in Rotorua, today stated that literacy and information technology would be his major prior

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that extensive protection works for Aoraki/Mount Cook village are underway and will be completed by July.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today launched proposed new rules for school suspensions for consultation at a Conference of Nelson Principals, and invited schools and parents nationwide to study and

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  • Education

Conservation Minister pressing for prosecution

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  • Conservation

Four chicks and seven fertile eggs so far!

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Pohatu Marine Reserve on Akaroa Peninsula had cleared its last statutory hurdle.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced a $1.6 million agreement between the Crown and the Aorangi Awarua Trust in the Central North Island to protect over 5,000ha of native forest, tussoc

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched Sea Week at the site of an illegal car dump on Himitangi Beach. Sea Week this year focuses on treasures of the coast.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that agreement had been reached with the Historic Places Trust on additional annual funding of $1.8million and a decentralised organisation that wil

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the surprise arrival of 2 kakapo chicks on Pearl Island, giving the third successive year of success for the Kakapo Recovery Programme.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that New Zealand sea lions in the sub-antarctic ocean do not appear to be showing any symptoms of last year's mystery illness and that a new net esc

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today authorised the capture of Rainbow Lorikeets in Auckland saying they posed a serious threat to New Zealand's native birds like the tui and kakariki, as well as

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  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today launched the education blueprint for health and physical education saying the document had greater potential to improve the health of New Zealanders than hundred

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced a landmark conservation achievement at Cape Brett on Northland's East Coast.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today said that the agreement with Te Rawhiti 3B2 has been delayed.

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  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today visited Panguru in Northland and announced that Panguru Area School would be rebuilt on higher land as quickly as possible to ensure the education of the pupils

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched the Department of Conservation 's weed strategy on Motutapu Island, with sobering facts and figures about the threats of these space invaders.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today opened the refurbished 144 year old Camphouse on Mt Egmont/Taranaki which he said would rate not only as the oldest but the most interesting of DoC's 800 huts

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith buried rumours that DoC had ever suggested it might claim ownership of logs washed onto private land in the Northland floods and said flood victims were most welcom

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  • Conservation

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today announced the guidelines that will be used to choose the new regional prison site in Northland.

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  • Corrections

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today released the first six month results of inmate drug testing showing good progress in reducing prison drug use.

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  • Education