Bay of Plenty — A jump in demand for forestry workers able to safely operate mechanised harvesting equipment has led to the creation of New Zealand’s first entry-level New Zealand Certificate in Forest Harvesting (Basic Machine Operations) programme.
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Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is working with forest owners and workers to introduce the recently released Approved Code of Practice for Safety and Health in Forest Operations.
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Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
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Wellington — Wellington Regional Council is to call for tenders for cutting rights at its 5,600 hectares of forestry land in the upper reaches of the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa.
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Greater Wellington Regional Council
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Taupo — Some of the revenue from logging operations at Owen Delany Park will be used to upgrade the park’s training lights.
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Taupo District Council
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Northland — Northland plantation forestry owners and contractors keen to better manage their earthworks and harvesting are being urged to attend one of five free local authority workshops being offered around the region next week.
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Northland Regional Council
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Auckland City — Auckland Council has confirmed that more than 50 elm trees in Whitford have been found to have Dutch elm disease, a destructive and fast spreading disease that was prominent in the early 1990s.
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Auckland Council
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Australia and New Zealand have today strengthened their long standing cooperation on forestry issues by signing the Arrangement on Combating Illegal Logging and Promoting Sustainable Forest Management.
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Industrial design graduate Nick Ross from Wellington has won the coveted James Dyson Award for a tree-harvesting device with the potential to revolutionise the forestry sector.
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Marlborough — The contract for logging and cartage in Marlborough Regional Forestry’s Waikakaho Forest have been let to local firms Pelorus Contracting Ltd and CRB Transport Ltd after they submitted bids which Marlborough Regional Forestry (MRF) Chairman Francis Maher described as being very well prepared.
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Palmerston North — Palmerston North City Council would like to advise the public that logging is to begin in Arapuke Forest Park starting the week of Monday 16 January 2012.
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Rotorua — A new fabric forest map called ‘The Manky,’ a combination of the words ‘map’ and ‘hanky’, has become a popular navigational tool for Whakarewarewa Forest and Redwoods enthusiasts.
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Rotorua — The top guns from New Zealand's forest and wood industry were announced [last night] at the National Training Awards run by FITEC (the forestry and wood industry organisation).
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Rotorua — Thirty one top performers are in line for the wood industry’s most sought after awards after being selected as finalists in the National Training Awards run by FITEC, the forest and wood industry training organisation.
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Hawke's Bay — The Waitaki District Council recently completed harvest of 12.3 hectares of radiate pine from Glen Eden and Glen Warren Reserves.
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The Commerce Commission has published a statement of preliminary issues relating to an application received from Matariki Forests seeking clearance to acquire the forestry assets of the Selwyn Plantation Board.
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Canterbury — The Commerce Commission has received an application from Matariki Forests seeking clearance to acquire the forestry assets of the Selwyn Plantation Board.
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Hamilton — Inforest training demonstrating the V8 chainsaw at Field Days.
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Rotorua — Severe tree damage during recent storms in Rotorua has resulted in parts of the Whakarewarewa Forest being closed to the public for a number of weeks while urgent harvesting is undertaken to make the area safe.
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Fitec is hosting ten graduation ceremonies over the next seven weeks to celebrate the training achievements of more than 1,174 wood industry modern apprentices and trainees from 398 companies, who have completed around 1,570 national certificates in 2010-2011.
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The New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF) elected three new NZIF Fellows at its AGM in Auckland earlier this month.
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A new award has been introduced to the annual FITEC National Training Awards in 2011 which will celebrate forest and wood manufacturing companies that have instigated an initiative which has made a huge difference to employee safety and productivity.
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Kawerau — SCA, globally recognised for its leadership in sustainable and ethical business practices, has announced the achievement of Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC™) Chain of Custody certification for its Tork® paper manufacturing site in Kawerau.
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