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Young fans honour dad's memory

Dannevirke brothers Lachlan, 12, and Connor Christian, 8, are set to attend the Cricket World Cup quarterfinal in Wellington in memory of their Dad, Rob, who was killed in a farm accident in December.

Three fans at Wellington's Cricket World Cup quarterfinal will treasure the occasion more than most.

Ballantynes on the up?

THINKING BIG?: The new chairman of Ballantynes in Christchurch, Bill Luff

Ballantynes is considering adding one or two storeys to its building to keep the iconic department store at the top of its game.

Big plans for Chch brew

HIGH HOPES: Sam and Ben Lu are attempting to export their own locally-made Chinese liquor (baijiu) into China.

Two Christchurch brothers are attempting to export their own locally-made Chinese liquor (baijiu) into China.

Call to punish farmers

Cattle graze in a field near Paris, Missouri July 13, 2012. U.S. ranchers are rushing to sell off some of their cattle as the worst drought in nearly 25 years dries up pastures, thins hay supplies and sends feed costs sky-rocketing. The drought in the Midwest follows another one last year in the southern Plains. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (UNITED STATES - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS COMMODITIES ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)

Quad bike ramming and drunken shearing among animal cruelty cases investigated on Canterbury farms.

Better deer health can lift profits

Big savings are ahead for deer farmers who introduce customised animal health plans.

Mutch ado about shearing

Taranaki-based Scotsman Gavin Mutch on his way to becoming the first overseas competitor to win the Golden Shears in Masterton.

Former world champion shearer says it's much harder to win Masterton's prestigious Golden Shears competition.

Agri advocate just born to be a farmer

Chris and Caroline Lewis manage three herds totalling 1150 friesian-cross cows.

Waikato farming leader Chris Lewis is a third-generation voice for the sector. He also finds time to run a big dairying business.

Featherston couple top dairy awards

WINNERS: Featherson couple Matt and Tracey Honeysett

Featherston couple win 2015 Hawke's Bay/Wairarapa sharemilker/equity farmers of the year, landing $11,200 in prizes.

Farmer outlines the path up

Sheep and beef farmer Doug Avery on his Marlborough farm.

Working harder isn't always working smarter.

Peeling the Indian apple

OPINION: Two-way trade between NZ and India, the world's second most populous nation, languishes at around $1.6 billion annually. How will that change?

Gough power struggle

Wealthy Christchurch businessman Ben Gough is back in court fighting to keep his position as a director of the family firm.

The "squiggly" path to tech success

Businesswoman Claudia Batten talks with 250 budding entrepreneurs at the 2015 Christchurch Mashup.

Canterbury school pupils have given technology entrepreneur Claudia Batten a taste of the "squiggly" creative thinking she most admires.

Further slump in sheep numbers

In 1982 the country had 70 million sheep; today the number has slipped below 30 million.

Sheep numbers could halve in the next 10 years, if the claims of a Meat Industry Excellence Group Report released last Tuesday, prove correct.

Delta owed millions

Dunedin's Delta Utility Services, owed millions on infrastructure work it did on a Christchurch subdivision, hopes some of the debt will be repaid.

Roadworks, big problem for small business

FRUSTRATED: Neil Hodgson is questioning traffic management around the central city.

One Chch trader says he has spent far too much of the last four years fighting the powers that be, trying to improve access to his retail frontages.

Lus have big plans for brew

Sam and Ben Lu's Taizi-branded baijiu costs $140 a bottle and is stocked at Ballantynes

Christchurch brothers are attempting to export their own locally-made Chinese liquor (baijiu) into China.

2degrees eyes fixed-line market

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2degrees may finally be about to make good on its ambition of entering the fixed-line phone and broadband market.

Speculation over white knight

TOUGH TIMES: Pumpkin Patch is battling heavy debt.

Pumpkin Patch books are better but kids clothing company looks at rescuer.

Pak'nSave workers plan protest

03.04.2012 Foodstuffs - Pak n Save Albany in Auckland. Mandatory Photo Credit ??Michael Bradley.

Rotorua supermarket workers to protest at what their union calls 'bullying' by employers.

Online shopping GST may rise

Internet shopping grew by 12.8 per cent in the year to September.

Internet shopping could become more expensive under planned trans-Pacific trade agreement.

'Stop stealing our harbour'

A small gathering at Bledisloe Wharf gather to protest a wharf extension.

Neil Finn and Sir Stephen Tindall are among those fighting Auckland port's expansion plans.

'Retail wage' cost Warehouse $6m

JUST THE START: People could get trained in the basics in a role like checkout operator, and then advance while on the job, Tindall said.

Paying staff a 'career retailer wage' hasn't paid off yet, but company says signs are promising.

152 starving cows put down

Dead cattle in drains, starved cows with parasites and trapped in mud on West Coast farm.

Convention centre safe

SkyCity drawings of its planned new International Convention Centre and hotel

SkyCity centre seems secure with planned law changes that would scupper it unlikely to gain support.

Peters pledge to clear Kaipara debt

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Winston Peters says he'll fight to clear Mangawhai Heads debt that resulted in huge rates rises.

You do what? Three jobs that didn't exist 10 years ago

Nicola Pere, owner of Metro Paws Doggy Day Care.

Danielle Heyns talks to three people who do jobs that didn't exist 10 years ago.

Man dead at limeworks

A limeworks on Kempthornes Rd in Gordon Valley, south of Timaru - one of several in the Waimate area.

The victim of a fatal industrial accident at the Gordons Valley Lime Company was Scott Baldwin.

Weevils bought in to fight barberry weed explosion

A Chilean flowerbud-feeding weevil that is being imported to fight the invasive weed, Darwin's barberry.

Tiny Chilean beetles have been released in Southland to try to head off a threat from an invasive weed that scientists fear could become as big a problem as gorse.