The Christmas countdown is on! And the excitement in all those small country towns around the world is building as rural meets urban in the holiday preparations. Here’s what Christmas was like in a snowy, small country Canadian town 80 years ago, as remembered by my father, Clare Westcott.
Picture this: I was seven years old. It was 1931.
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Every so often, I like to “shout” our readers to another perspective. What’s on the mind of Federated Farmers’ CEO Conor English these days? Read on...
Here’s an interesting analogy in numbers and dollars we can understand......
With Prime Minister John Key running for re-election, he might be interested in knowing how Prairie farmers were once the making of Canadian politician John Bracken, the long-time premier of Manitoba (1922-43) and leader of the federal Conservative opposition (1943-8).
February has been a bad month for New Zealand.
And I'm not just talking 2011!
Eighty years ago, in February 1931, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Napier levelling it. 260 innocent people were killed and thousands were injured.
Yesterday was November 11th – Armistice Day. What are we to remember? Has time dimmed and shrouded the haunting shadows of those not-so-distant wars?
As a senior executive highly placed in the NZ fertiliser industry recently remarked, “The ramifications reach far beyond the shores of Canada and will be reflected in the cost and supply of food - not only to affluent countries, but could add to the growing number of starving and under nourished people throughout the world.”
