SPCA offers half price adoptions
The SPCA is calling on animal lovers who’ve been thinking about adopting to take up the charity’s half-price adoptions which start this weekend.
From 27 January until 4 February, anyone looking to adopt an animal – whether it be a cat, dog, rabbit, guinea pig, or even a goat, horse or pig – can pick it up for half the usual fee.
SPCA hopes it will encourage more adoptions at a time when many of their centres are nearing capacity as adoptions slow-down and the busy kitten season is underway.
SPCA’s adoption fees cover just a portion of the actual cost of desexing, vaccinating, worming and flea treatments, and caring for each animal. However, the charity hopes that by discounting the cost for the week, it can help get more animals into permanent homes.
For those who aren’t in a position to make the long-term commitment of owning an animal, they are also in need of new foster volunteers to offer a temporary home to animals in need, especially kittens, at this time of year.
People looking to adopt a pet can browse available animals on the SPCA’s website before making an appointment with their local centre. Keen foster volunteers can sign up to foster via SPCA’s website.
Lotto winners
Lotto players who purchased a ticket at New World Hastings and one My Lotto player from Hawke’s Bay have each won a Second Division prize worth $12,425 in Saturday night’s draw.
Tickets can be checked in store, on MyLotto or through the MyLotto App.
Driftwood fires
Firefighters were called to the foreshore at Awatoto, near Napier, on three separate occasions over the weekend to put out driftwood fires.
The largest was about 40m x 10m.
Firefighters extinguished the driftwood fires on each occasion including on Friday night, Saturday morning and Saturday night.
Raukawa grass fire
Firefighters on Saturday afternoon put out a small grass fire in Raukawa, just outside of Hastings, before it spread.
The grass fire was about 4m x 4m and happened on Anaroa Rd about 4pm.
Kiriata showcase
Wairoa Māori Film Festival is to present the Kiriata Māori Cinema Showcase in New Plymouth.
It is curated by Wairoa Māori Film Festival director Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) in response to an exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre exhibition.
The Waitangi weekend showcase will present a selection of documentaries, short films and moving image artworks made by Māori filmmakers.
“Kiriata Māori 2024 [Kiriata means film or cinema] is a special programme for the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, as the full festival was unable to go ahead last year because of the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on the East Coast,” Koziol told RNZ.
