Category: Success stories
Highest Nursing Honour given to Hawke’s Bay Nurse
June 20th, 2011
8th June 2011 Local MPs Craig Foss and Chris Tremain congratulate Andrew Cameron for receiving nursing’s highest honour. Andrew, a Hawkes’s Bay Red Cross aid worker, is one of only a handful of New Zealanders to receive one of the world’s highest ... read more
Watties Workfit Challenge
June 14th, 2011
Craig Foss MP for Tukituki and Chris Tremain MP for Napier are part of a 7 member Team, “Hawke’s Bay Leaders”, which have joined the “Watties Workfit Business Challenge 2011” that runs for 16 weeks. This is part of the global corporate challenge ... read more
Farm Safety a Must!
June 1st, 2011
ICE Expo, http://www.iceexpo.org.nz/ice-expo, 2011 is a great local event. Well done to the organisers for putting on a great Autumn day and a great event bringing local Horticulture together. I crunched by way through local apples, enjoyed the different ... read more
Laying Ashphalitic Concrete
June 1st, 2011
Chris and I have worked very hard to get the Hawke’s Bay Airport airport runway extended. Higgins are currently laying Asphaltic Concrete (AC) at the southern end of the extension and today we paid them a visit. It was great to be down on the site and ... read more
Ultra-fast broadband to connects Hawke’s Bay with the world
May 24th, 2011
“Hawke’s Bay will be connected to the world like never before with the introduction of ultra-fast broadband,” National MPs Craig Foss and Chris Tremain say. “Ultra-fast broadband will connect Hawke’s Bay businesses, schools and health providers ... read more
MP left in the dust by “Super Seniors”
May 18th, 2011
On Monday morning, 9.00am sharp I joined close to 100 seniors at the Rodney Green Centre, McLean Park, for one of three morning workouts held there every week. Kiwi Seniors have been operating for 21 years. Around 100, over 50′s turn up every Monday ... read more
Magpie Army gets it’s first call up!
May 18th, 2011
It’s been a tough few weeks here in the Bay, especially with all the rain and slippage. I’ve had a couple of slips on my own home property over the last year or two so I know how heart wrenching it can be when you see part of your property falling into a ... read more
Unemployment down to 6.6% – still not good enough!
May 11th, 2011
It was great to see the ‘Labour Force’ figures released last week reporting that the rate of unemployment was down to 6.6%. The number of people employed and in work rose by 30,000 over the last quarter to 2,214,000. This is still not good enough, but is ... read more
Successful Civic Honours Award
May 10th, 2011
Six outstanding Hawke’s Bay individuals and two groups, who have dedicated years of selfless service to others in our community have been the recipients of the Hastings District Councils Civic Awards. We live in a great region, it is great people like ... read more
Better health services closer to home!
May 7th, 2011
Last week I had the privilege to launch the new “Registered Nurse Diabetes Prescribing” initiative at the Hawkes Bay District Health Board. While diagnosis of diabetes will continue to be undertaken by qualified doctors this new initiative will allow ... read more
