The beauty of orchids will be on display at the Whangārei Orchid Show this weekend.
The beauty of orchids will be on display at the Whangārei Orchid Show this weekend.
Whangārei is the venue for this year's National Orchid Judging Seminar, Orchid Show and AGM this weekend. The Whangārei Orchid Society is to host the annual New Zealand National Judging Seminar and the Orchid Council Annual General Meeting. It will be 10 years since this event was last held inWhangārei. The Whangārei Orchid Society will also be staging an orchid show alongside these two events at the Badminton Hall in Porowini Ave. The show is open from 10am until 4pm tomorrow, Saturday and from 9am to 3pm on Sunday. Entry is by gold coin donation.
Heavy rain coming
A ridge of high pressure over the country is expected to bring rain - and it may be heavy - to Northland over the weekend. The ridge will move south eastwards on Saturday as a complex low approaches the North Island from the Tasman Sea. A front associated with this low is expected to move southwards over the North Island during the weekend, bringing rain and east to northeast winds to much of the North Island. MetService said rainfall accumulations could approach warning levels - 100mm in 24 hours - about Northland on Saturday, then about Northland, Auckland, Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty on Sunday.
Lotto winner
A Northland Lotto player is almost $22,000 richer after winning Lotto Second Division on Wednesday. Seven Lotto tickets from around the country each won $21,973 with Lotto Second Division with one of the tickets sold online at MyLotto to a person from Northland.
Renowned New Zealand volcanologist Professor Colin Wilson will be giving free talks on the life and times of 'supervolcanoes' in Northland in August. A supervolcano an unusually large volcano having the potential to produce an eruption with major effects on the global climate and ecosystem. Wilson will give talks on the natural phenomena at Kaitāia's Te Ahu Little Theatre on August 6 from 5.30pm and at Whangārei's Toll Stadium on August 8 from 5.30pm.
In a story in Last Saturday's Northern Advocate about inspirational solo dance performance, Meremere, performed by Rodney Bell, paralysed from the chest down, it stated the show was being performed at Kerikeri's Turner Centre on June 12. The show is on at the Turner Centre on Sunday, June 10.
