Press Releases

Strong demand for tickets has Rugby World Cup 2011 organisers in New Zealand in a positive spin.

Kiwi chefs will work magic with Māori ingredients and wild foods at the 13th Monteith’s Beer and Wild Food Challenge – whipping up dishes of wild game, seafood and indigenous plants to spice up adventurous palates.

The first New Zealand ski field of the season is set to open tomorrow morning (5.06.2010) – just in time for the long Queen’s Birthday weekend.

A treasure trove of long-lost American silent films from the early 20th century is slowly making its way back to the US – after being discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington.

Dunedin will transform into the ‘city of lights’ on 26 June 2010 – when more than 250 hand-made lanterns line the streets marking New Zealand’s midwinter.

A pre-dawn gathering on a New Zealand East Coast beach will be first to witness Matariki rising and the dawning of Māori New Year - at the same location that’s famously first in the world to see the sun.

The world’s ‘ultimate sailing experience’ turned 10 this week – and Kiwi inventor Paul Beckett is quietly confident that the blokart will last the distance.

Celebrated Kiwi chef Peter Gordon will be digging deep for Māori New Year this month by combining his Māori roots and fancy kai / food cooking skills at a gourmet hangi to celebrate Matariki.

Matariki will be observed throughout New Zealand this year with home-style and high-profile events bringing families together to celebrate new beginnings.

As New Zealand’s All Whites prepare for their Football World Cup opener against Slovakia early tomorrow morning (16.06.10), Kiwi fans are getting ready for a ‘whiteout’ in support of the team.