Malcolm Gayfer

Hiya team, here we are at the end of July. We’ll wind up our series of Mal’s Music Memory – 50 Years Ago 1970 with a couple of Kiwi Crackers. A few notes from New Zealand history on what happened here in Godzone in 1970 – Keith Holyoake was Prime Minister. Winston Peters said the […]

A good ol’ fashioned town hall pre-election meeting. One way to describe Friday’s gathering at the Invercargill WorkingMen’s Club with the Right Hon. Winston Peters. The meeting attracted good numbers, in fact very good numbers considering it was a work day and the weather hardly favourable. The lea

Hiya team. How’s the week been treating you? We’ll keep on keepin’ on looking back at the songs that made it big in 1970 – 50 years ago. First up it’s English band Mungo Jerry who took the world by storm with In The Summertime. Incidentally the song has been rerecorded with Mungo’s frontman and […]

The SBS Bank Tour of Southland is all set for 2020. Entries for the event, which will take place from 1 to 7 November, opened this week, and there is already significant interest. Race Director Sally Marr said there was a real buzz around this year’s edition of the event. “Lockdown has been tough on

Christchurch Airport Co. plans to build airport near Tarras central Otago……..More to come

What a day it’s been for Southland. The Prime Minister Jacinda Adern , Minister of Finance Grant Robertson, Megan Woods Minister of Housing and Energy and Resources, Shane Jones Minister of Regional Development all in town with one mission….to allay fears of Southland over the impending closure of t

A Government investment of $25 million will create 180 jobs and improve the safety and resilience of the Homer Tunnel on the crucial State Highway 94 (The Milford Road) tourist route linking Te Anau and Piopiotahi Milford Sound, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones says. The multimillion-dollar inves

While it was cold outside, freezing actually, the self styled champion of the regions Shane Jones brought warmth, some laughter and a big bag of money for various southern organisations and businesses. One of the big handouts is for  stop-bank upgrade work for our rivers. This follows on from the ca