Displaying items by tag: MEKA WHAITIRI

Wairoa Mayor Craig Little says the succession of Recovery Ministers who have resigned or left has not made his life easy.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly reckons the promotion of former kindergarten teacher Jo Luxton as new associate agriculture minister, following the defection of Meka Whaitiri from Labour to the Maori Party, shows just how shallow the talent pool is in the current government.

The Government has announced an initial $4 million in funding to help farmers, growers, whenua Māori owners and rural communities to co-ordinate recovery efforts from Cyclone Gabrielle.

Wool scourers WoolWorks New Zealand recently welcomed Minister of Customs Meka Whaitiri to its Napier plant to celebrate a milestone for an important exports scheme.

32 graduate vets will begin their careers in rural New Zealand, with a financial boost from the Government’s Voluntary Bonding Scheme for Veterinarians (VBS), according to Acting Agriculture and Rural Communities Minister Meka Whaitiri.

The battle lines are being drawn between the small, isolated northern Hawke's Bay farming town of Wairoa, pop. 8000, against the big guns of Jacinda Ardern and what they see as her anti-farming government and its plans to unfairly tax agricultural emissions. Peter Burke reports...

The food and fibre sector acknowledged its people and leadership at last night’s 2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards, says Acting Minister of Agriculture Meka Whaitiri.

A Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) programme has been named as the recipient of two years of funding support from the Government.

Associate Agriculture Minister Meka Whaitiri says new Government funding will help women pave the way to farming for the future.

The Government is investing in new integrated advisory services for farmers, foresters and growers in the latest budget released today.