Bryan Easton Grimshaw & Co www.grimshaw.co.nz A recent case from the Court of Appeal (Brouwers v Street [2010] NZCA 463) has reaffirmed a property owner's right to lateral support from adjoining properties. This decision will be of particular... Read More

Philip Holland Financial Independence financialindependence The fire at the Te Aroha's Silver Fern meat processing plant last Friday is a very timely reminder to contractors to ensure they are correctly insured. It appears that a contractor may... Read More

John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz Over the years I have created nutritional support programmes for those with Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). This year one person has noticed major improvements in UC, to the point of having... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid loves nothing better than spending an afternoon chasing cricket results on a sunny summer's day. As the Bay of Plenty provider of cricket results for the Sunday papers,... Read More

Ralph Jordan The engineer's notebook A $13 million contract has recently been awarded for the first stage of construction of the Southern Pipeline from Maleme Street. It has always puzzled me that this sewerage installation, primarily to service... Read More

Brian Rogers Marine Musing www.sunlive.co.nz The large number of orca currently around the Bay and Coromandel harbours are munching on stingrays. We can expect to see more, the 'whale-huggers' tell us. Bring it on, I say. There seems to be more... Read More

Carol Stovold Quality Kidz www.qualitykidz.co.nz Choosing the right child care for your child is never easy, there's so much to consider. Following on from last week, here are more pitfalls to avoid, and points to consider to help you with an... Read More

John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz Last week we looked at the role of nutritional therapy with health problems that are both untreatable and unresponsive to modern medicine. In many cases a problem is so well established that medical... Read More

Andrew Nimick Point Concept twitter.com/andrewnim A few weeks ago I wrote about the new Windows Phone7 mobile operating system for smart phones and how it might effect the market. I mentioned how Nokia was loosing ground in this area as its operating... Read More

Claire Rogers All about wine www.sunlive.co.nz Pinot Noir is the flagship for Martinborough Vineyard; a place established in 1980 by a small partnership with the main objective of producing world class cool climate wines from classical grape varieties.... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz It's been a funny old week, complete with strange items arriving in the mailbox. It must be 'weird inventions week' judging by the stream of oddball devices.Not as wacky as the snorkel with a built-in... Read More

Diesel Rogers Dining with Diesel www.sunlive.co.nz Maybe it is my new bionic leg, or the sweet smells of the summer barbecue, but something is putting more than one spring in my step lately.Whatever it is, I have found a new energy source lately... Read More