Tag: botany
Mid-winter festival celebrates diversity
There was singing, dancing and cake at a Mid-Winter Festival celebrating the ethnic diversity of Botany and Flat Bush.
About 100 people turned out for...
MP calls out AT for abandoning traffic ‘blackspot’
Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross isn’t giving up his fight to have safety improvements carried out to an east Auckland traffic blackspot.
Mr Ross says he’s...
The Slater’s golden years of marriage
Every week Trevor and Kay Slater would go dancing at the popular Monaco dance club on Federal Street in Auckland City.
They say they can...
Man killed at traffic lights is named by police
Police have named the man killed in a crash at the intersection of Botany Road and Ti Rakau Drive, Botany on Monday.
He was Zhengwen...
Run Santa Run
In a sea of cheerful red, around 150 Santas young and old participated in the Great New Zealand Santa Run at the Barry Curtis...
MP Jami-Lee Ross stepping back from Parliament
Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross has announced that he will be taking a few months away from Parliament for health reasons.
Ross, who is also the...
New Bill to repeal Regional Fuel Taxes
A new Bill from National would relieve Aucklanders and New Zealanders facing higher fuel prices, National’s Transport spokesperson Jami-Lee Ross says.
The Bill would remove the...
When melody was king
Soprano Kelly Harris debuts in Operatunity’s Golden Era of Musicals, coming to Botany, on Tuesday, August 7 at St Columba Presbyterian Church, 480 Ti...
First Union: `Performance pay in shambles’
More than 50 employees of Farmers retail stores of Botany, Pakuranga, Manukau and Papakura staged a walk out from the stores last Thursday.
They protested...
Fuel tax to cost Aucklanders $1.5bn more
With Auckland’s regional fuel tax coming into effect today, National’s transport spokesperson Jami-Lee Ross says the cost of living in Auckland is set to...