A parade through Invercargill’s inner-city, to celebrate Southland Boys’ High School’s historic win in the New Zealand Barbarians 1st XV National championships, has been cancelled because of temperamental weather. Southland Boys’ High School came from behind to beat Westlake Boys’ and take out the prestigious Moascar Cup, winning their school’s first-ever national rugby title in […]
Read More >New rating valuations on the horizon for Invercargill
Work is already well underway on Invercargill’s general property revaluation for 2023. New three-yearly rating valuations are being prepared for every one of the city’s 26,313 properties by independent valuers Quotable Value (QV), with new values being processed for every property based on its most likely selling price if it had sold on 1 July […]
Read More >He Waka Tuia exhibition Seen/Scene captures Southland’s LGBTQIA+ community
Southland’s Rainbow community is being recognised in He Waka Tuia’s latest exhibition, Seen/Scene. Wellington art photographer Adrienne Martyn was commissioned to photograph 41 people from the Southland LGBTQIA+ community specifically for the exhibition. The idea for the exhibition came about following a movement beginning in 1989 called Day Without Art, an international response to the […]
Read More >Blessing for tuatara facility site in Queens Park takes place
Work on constructing the new tuatara facility will soon commence following the blessing of the site by mana whenua. On Friday morning, drenched in sunshine, Waihōpai Rūnaka representatives Ra Dallas and Evelyn Cook, together with Ngāti Koata representative Zealan Simpkins, of Nelson, performed karakia and a blessing of the site in Queens Park. In June, […]
Read More >Second stage of city pipeline upgrade has begun
The next phase of work on a critical infrastructure project – to ensure the people of Invercargill and Bluff continue to have access to clean, safe drinking water – has started. Invercargill City Council Programme Director Lee Butcher said the Branxholme Pipeline Upgrade would replace the city’s existing ageing main freshwater line, which connected the […]
Read More >Council agrees to name new museum Te Unua Museum of Southland
Te Unua Museum of Southland will be the name of Southland’s new museum. At a full Invercargill City Council meeting on Tuesday, Councillors discussed two options for the name – Te Unua Museum of Southland and Te Unua Southland Museum. Invercargill City Council started Project 1225, the project to rebuild the city’s museum, in December […]
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