The pop-up Urupukapuka Island library at the Department of Conservation's Otehei Bay Visitors Centre - a hit with campers last summer - is back for this summer.
A pop-up library for holiday makers on Urupukapuka in the Bay of Islands is making a welcome return this summer.
The mini-library will operate out of the Department of Conservation's Otehei Bay Visitors Centre providing free books to campers and other visitors to Urupukapuka Island.
The pop-up library was run for the
first time by Far North District Libraries last summer and proved a big hit with visitors. The service will again provide a range of reading materials free of charge. Because the library is unstaffed, no library card is needed, and users can keep the books if they want to.
Far North Libraries is encouraging pop-up library users to photograph themselves alongside the library trolley at the Urupukapuka Island Visitors Centre. Each person who emails a photo to outreach@fndc.govt.nz will be sent a prize.
Hunt on for missing 29yo man
Police are appealing for the public's assistance in locating William Martin, currently missing in the Kerikeri area. The 29-year-old was last seen by his family in the Mission Road, Kerikeri area near the Kerikeri River at around 11.30am yesterday. Both Police and William's family have concerns for his wellbeing and would like to locate him. William is around 175cm tall and of solid build with brown neck-length hair. He was unshaven, wearing a blue shirt, dark blue shorts and no footwear when he was last seen. If anyone sees William, please call Police on 111. Otherwise, if anyone has information on where he may be please call 105 quoting the reference number P049106753.
Nurses reach pay agreement
There'll be no more nurses strikes in Northland or elsewhere in the country next year after they settled their pay dispute with district health boards.
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has signed an Agreement in Principle to settle its Nursing Pay Equity claim for the NZNO and PSA members who work in district health boards.
NZNO industrial services manager Glenda Alexander said this settlement is of historical significance because it corrects the long-standing sex-based undervaluation of nursing work.
"This pay equity agreement will be absolutely life-changing for many of our members.''
The pay equity claim covers about 40,000 members of the DHB-employed nursing workforce, including more than 1000 in Northland. The dispute spurred a series of strikes by nurses across the country.
