Wendy Macphail Employment Law Services How can you cost effectively increase your employee's productivity by 30 per cent? If employees increase their productivity within their work environment, then everyone benefits. The business they work for... Read More

Brent Trail Managing DirectorSurveying Services Ltd Transferable Subdivision or Development Rights allow landowners to take advantage of their subdivision rights without actually losing the land. The purchaser of these rights can gain the ability... Read More

Gourmet Guide by Jo Blennerhassett of The Good Food Trading Co. Good Food sources their meat from Harmony. The lamb legs are easy to carve as they have only the hock bone at the end, not all the way through, which makes them easy to carve and serve. The... Read More

Captivating children by Anna Rutten from Kidiwise Early Learning Centre We couldn't have wished for a wetter Christmas than what we've had this year. I am sitting here looking out at yet another rainy, rainy day and the prospect of another week... Read More

The Good Life with Sue Edmonds With summer droughts becoming regular and the water table in my well getting lower each year, I thought it was time I took some of my own advice on water use and made the most of what falls before the drought hits. The... Read More

Finance with Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance Do you know that more than 50 per cent of those killed in 9/11 had no will? Think about the ramifications for those left behind. I am a trustee of a farm, where one of the settlers had been advised he... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Many of you have a lot of very good theories as to why a ship would be wrecked on a reef. But they're not as good as this one. This theory was developed as the RR research team wandered the windswept... Read More

News Hound Ady & Flo Howdy, it's Flo Flotsam here. I've been jetsamming around with the bosses on assignment this week, chasing flotsam photos from my hometown to Bowentown. (And let me just clarify, it's pronounced like Bow-wow'n town.) First... Read More

Around the Clubs It's been another challenging week for local surf lifesaving clubs, with the Rena breakup disrupting our northern neighbours at Waihi Beach. It means the Top Rookie Lifeguard of the Year competition has had to change venues on... Read More

Ian McLean Green candidate for Tauranga That shiny sheen on the water surface around the Rena is not just oil. It is fish, lots of fish. It was in 1975 that the battle to create a marine reserve at Goat Island at Leigh was won. Local fishers, who... Read More

Brian Anderson The Western Front www.sunlive.co.nz The old fable reports on an emperor who, through his social media, had managed to convince everybody that his sartorial splendour, the ultimate in minimalist fashion was the very latest and was... Read More

Andrew von Dadelszen Former Regional Councillor I sympathise with the view of many who are calling for transparency during the settlement process of the Tauranga Moana Treaty claims. Word has it that local Maori can expect a settlement of about... Read More