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CHRISTCHURCH — Highly respected educationalist Dr Sandra Hastie has been appointed as the Principal of Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Calling all new first time entrants, growers of amazing tomatoes, producers of high numbers and those to whom sustainability is important.

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CHRISTCHURCH — "You should have worn a tie".

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CHRISTCHURCH — The Age in Melbourne last week ran an article critical of open plan classrooms which will resonate with New Zealand educators, many of whom, including Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Principal, Julie Moor, are unconvinced will improve learning outcomes.

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The New Zealand College of Midwives congratulates the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) on the opening of the Rangiora Health Hub.

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  In October 2014, Tonkin and Taylor presented Rangi Ruru Girls’ School with five boxes of core samples from land underneath the new Science Centre which opened in April 2014.

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  Former Christchurch woman Cara-Joy Purkis whose vehicle was hit by an eighteen wheel truck in Texas almost a month ago, is out of her coma.

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"We need to get her home." That from Christchurch ex-pat Courtenay Washington, the step sister of a young woman whose vehicle was hit by an eighteen wheel truck in Texas two weeks ago.

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The New Zealand College of Midwives is disappointed at the poor data quality and flawed methodology used in a study on maternity outcomes, out today.

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The New Zealand College of Midwives welcomes the acknowledgement by Government of the obesity problem, reinforced by news this morning that the Health Minister is planning to announce a major programme to combat obesity.  NZCOM CEO, Karen Guilliland sounds a word of warning however, following indications in the media that pregnant women will be a focus of the plan.

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New Zealand's first female Prime Minister is to lead a Spring speaker series at Rangi Ruru Girls' School.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Rangi Ruru Girls’ School has won Best Youth Production and Runner-up Best Overall Production at the acclaimed Norfolk Island Theatre Festival.

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Rangi Ruru cyclist Sarah McLeod has topped a successful season winning the under 20 points title at the New Zealand Schools Road Cycling Championships in the Manawatu.

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CHRISTCHURCH — This weekend both the Rangi U20 and the U16 basketball teams won their respective finals of the Canterbury Club Basketball competition.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Students from Aranui High and Rangi Ruru Girls’ School have been awarded first and second place respectively in the 2015 Lois Middlemiss Memorial Award.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Leading girls' school Rangi Ruru is heading to Christchurch suburbs to meet prospective parents.

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The Rangi Ruru Girls' School first XI hockey team has won the Federation Cup in a nail biting final at the national tournament in Tauranga yesterday.

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"It was bright moonlight – good bombing light – and once we had to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over.

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The Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Services ('MERAS') fully supports and applauds the actions taken by the New Zealand College of Midwives ('the College') on behalf of community Lead Maternity Care ('LMC') midwives to legally challenge the Ministry of Health over how midwives in the community are paid.

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“We have been left with no choice.” That from Karen Guilliland, the Chief Executive of the New Zealand College of Midwives, as the organisation prepares to file a pay parity discrimination case on the basis of gender under the NZ Bill of Rights Act in the High Court.

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CHRISTCHURCH — In their first outing against hundreds of other students from around Canterbury, Rangi Ruru Girls' School has won two categories at the regional RoboCup Junior New Zealand competition.

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Rangi Ruru Girls’ School has re-established their position at the head of Canterbury Secondary School girls cycling, winning the Litolff Cup on the course in Tai Tapu on 19 August.

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CHRISTCHURCH — For many homeowners in Canterbury the misery of resolving issues with the damage caused not only to their homes but their land continues.  Resolving the insurance and land issues post the Canterbury Earthquake is complicated because of the damage done and because each group, homeowners, insurers, local and central government, have taken varying positions.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Rangi Ruru Year 12 Music Scholar Karen Hu has been wowing audiences in Blenheim, Christchurch and Wellington over the past two weeks.

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Zoe Helleur today thanked the Shirley Papanui Community Board for the funding she and her brother Liam received to help get them to Sydney last month.

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CHRISTCHURCH — "Impressive" and "positive".

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CHRISTCHURCH — Four Year 11 Rangi girls have taken out the 2015 South Island Brain Bee Challenge held in Dunedin on Tuesday.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Rangi Ruru Girls' School has made her presence felt right across the New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest National Finals for 2015.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A brand new Performing Arts Building at Rangi Ruru Girls' School has been officially opened by Dame Malvina Major.  With the cold and wet weather, speeches were held inside the oldest building on the school site (St Andrews Church ar Rangi Ruru), before the ribbon was officially cut from the doors of the newest building.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The spectacularly rebuilt and restored Isaac Theatre Royal, has taken out two prestigious awards at the 2015 Property Council New Zealand and Rider Levett Bucknall Awards held in Auckland last night.

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Three of Rangi Ruru’s stunning new buildings have been awarded the top prize in the Coffey Education and Arts Property Section of the 2015 Property Council New Zealand and Rider Levett Bucknall Awards annual awards tonight in Auckland.

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CHRISTCHURCH — 126 year old Rangi Ruru Girls’ School will officially open a new Performing Arts Building on June 18th.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The Transitional Cathedral in Christchruch will once again be the place for people with questions about earthquake insurance claims.

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CHRISTCHURCH — After more than 13 years at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, Principal Julie Moor is to finish her tenure at the end of this year.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A Rangi Ruru Girls’ School scholarship acknowledging the significance of 2014 is on offer for the first time.

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May 5 is the International Day of the Midwife, a time to celebrate midwives' contribution to the health, well-being and survival of women and their babies around the world.

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New Zealand College of Midwives Chief Executive, Karen Guilliland, leaves on Wednesday for Ankara Turkey where she will address an academic audience on New Zealand's world leading maternity system.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A record number of entries were a part of this year's Shirley /Papanui Community Board Edible Garden Awards.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Around 400 people packed into the Transitional Cathedral in ChCh on Friday night to hear about the possibility of a group action against insurers.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A record thirteen music students from Rangi Ruru Girls’ School will take the stage with the NZSSSO (New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Symphony Orchestra) this Friday in Christchurch and they will be led by one of their own.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A funded and well resourced legal action against insurers could be on the cards, more than four years after earthquakes devastated the largest South Island city.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Two gold medals are the icing on the cake for Rangi Ruru after this years Maadi Cup Rowing Regatta.

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CHRISTCHURCH — "I'm seriously concerned" says Christchurch Quantity Surveyor Victoria Whitta following last week's news that insurer IAG is cash settling claims to meet deadlines.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The Rangi Premier tennis team of Annabel Ellis (Capt), Vera Goesmann, Imogen Bell, Stella Hoeper and Margo Willis have taken the title of South Island Secondary School Girls Tennis Champions.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Children, parents, teachers and judges gathered at the Canterbury Horticultural Society this evening for the Inaugural Oderings Garden Centres School Garden Show.

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CANTERBURY — The following can be attributed to David Turnbull, who is chair of the Rangiora High School Board of Trustees, until 10am today when a Commissioner will be gazetted.

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CHRISTCHURCH — With only two shows in Christchurch, tickets to Legendary Divas were always going to be in demand but performer Ali Harper never anticipated one show selling out five weeks before opening on March 1st.

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Rangi Ruru celebrates Love Week each year around the time of Valentine’s Day, which sees all the girls across the school take part in theme days and other fun activities to promote fun and friendship.

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CHRISTCHURCH — On Monday the Shirley Papanui Community Board in association with the Christchurch Beautifying Association held their annual Community Pride Garden awards.

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CANTERBURY — As some move forward positively, a significant number of Cantabrians still have questions and need support around earthquake claims.

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One girl has been awarded a premier scholarship and she's from Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch.

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The following can be attributed to the NZ College of Midwives Chief Executive, Karen Guilliland.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Treena Ruwhiu is already well known to many Rangi girls and families as she has been a senior and much respected member of the school's English Faculty since arriving at Rangi in 2009.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Former Silver Fern and high profile coach, Frances Granger, has been appointed Rangi Ruru head coach for the 2015 netball season.

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CHRISTCHURCH — "Quiet please, there's a lady on stage...." Edith Piaf, Shirley Bassey, Peggy Lee, Dusty Springfield with a bit of Madonna thrown in for good measure - these and other stunning singing stars come alive in Christchurch performer Ali Harper's new show "Legendary Divas".

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CHRISTCHURCH — Rangi Ruru Girls’ School has taken home the top prize in the Nga Kete Debating Tournament, a competition that celebrates women’s suffrage and open to teams of girls from all Christchurch secondary schools.

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That's one of the issues that will be explored with Rangi Ruru students tomorrow as part of seminars being led by the University of Otago’s Dr.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Feuding faeries and lumbering labourers collide in a comedy of Shakespearean proportions as the 2014 Rangi Ruru Junior Production comes to life under the stars this month.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Over the weekend Year 13 music scholars Amy Lee and Siyu Sun took out 1st and 3rd place respectively in the Performing Arts Competition Association of New Zealand (PACANZ) National Young Performer Awards in Palmerston North.

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CHRISTCHURCH — This Saturday the old and the new will come together in a Gala Concert, the like of which has not been seen before in the school’s history.

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Rangi Ruru Year 13 student Kristy Havill has won the New Zealand Girls' overall champion title at the NZ Fish and Game South Island and NZ Secondary Schools Clay Target Championships.

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Rangi Ruru Girls' School senior theatre scholars have taken away Best Play First Prize, Best Director, and Best Set Design at The Brisbane Arts Theatre Festival this weekend for their production of 'Crave' by British Playwright Sarah Kane.

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Tickets are now on sale for the Year 13 Rangi Ruru drama students' performance of 'Crave', a one-act play by British playwright Sarah Kane and directed by the Rangi's Director of Theatre Arts, Robert Gilbert.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Next Tuesday, 9 September, members of the St Albans and Edgeware community will gather to talk about what they would like to see in their area, community facility-wise.

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Christchurch’s Rangi Ruru Girls’ school is about to join schools around the world and New Zealand as part of the “Seismometers in Schools” programme, thanks to Auckland University.

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New Zealand has a “stunning” maternity care system according to a visiting international expert in childbirth and midwifery.

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CANTERBURY — In the same month that Maryam Mirzakhani became the first ever female to win the Field’s medal* (often described as the Nobel prize for mathematics), it is appropriate that the Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Year 10 Cantamath team became the first ever girls’ team to win Canterbury Mathematics Association’s Year 10 Cantamath competition.

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Bombshells starring Ali Harper is about to explode onto 42nd Street in New York.

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Tears flowed as hundreds of people gathered in Christchurch yesterday.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Palestinian Child Victims To Be Remembered This Saturday “We can no longer sit silently and watch this appalling atrocity.” That from Lauren McGee, one of the organisers of a rally planned in Christchurch this weekend where more than 300 white balloons will be released, each one bearing the name of a dead Palestinian child.

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What is quite possibly the first Food Forest in Christchurch was planted yesterday.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Around 60 people attended the unveiling of a new public artwork unveiled in Papanui early this morning.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Aikido Shinryukan Canterbury, is celebrating an historic first for the club.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The first South Island school student in 25 years to represent New Zealand at the International Biology Olympiad leaves Christchurch today (Wednesday 2 July).

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CHRISTCHURCH — Rangi Ruru chamber music groups Eklamoré, and Trio Emporté, have been selected as two of the 12 national semi-finalists for the prestigious New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) Chamber Music Contest.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A group of five Year 12 students from Rangi Ruru Girls' School are doing their bit to increase awareness of meningitis.

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CHRISTCHURCH — It was a perfect warm and still morning for the official opening of the new Mana Wāhine building at Rangi Ruru today.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Yet another new building will be officially opened tomorrow at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch.

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CANTERBURY — Rangi Ruru Art scholars are leaving their mark around Christchurch.

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KAIAPOI — Affordable two, three and four bedroom homes are completed and ready to move into at BeachGrove Kaiapoi.

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More seats are being released following a huge demand for tickets to Rangi Ruru and Christ’s College’s production of “Cats”.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Rangi Ruru's Ashleigh Goh (Year 10) has succesfully defended her title at the National Fencing Championships in Wellington.

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Rangi Ruru’s Year 12 Music Scholars Grace Leehan and Geeny Moon have both successfully auditioned for a highly competitive and sought after place in the 2014 NZSO National Youth Orchestra (NYO).

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International Midwives Day May 5th Midwives around the world celebrated International Day of the Midwife today with the theme "Midwives: changing the world one family at a time".

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CHRISTCHURCH — Around 120 people rolled up at the Edgeware Bowling Club yesterday as the Shirley / Papanui Community Board began the first of city wide information sessions and focus groups on flooding.

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CHRISTCHURCH — With Prince William and Princess Catherine’s arrival in Christchurch today, it may be worth considering previous Royal visits dating back more than a century, which provide an interesting reflection on our city’s historical links with the royals.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Tomorrow sees the opening of the first two of several new buildings on the Rangi Ruru Girls' School campus in Christchurch.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a theatre script...must be in want of an audience.

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CHRISTCHURCH — This year will see the Rangi Ruru family coming together to mark the school’s 125th anniversary.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The public will get a chance to see Rangi Ruru Girls' School from a different perspective when they launch their new advertising campaign on Sunday.

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CHRISTCHURCH — It was fun all round at Christchurch's Rangi Ruru Girls' School today.

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It was flour and butter at the ready this morning in the Christchurch suburb of Wainoni.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Acclaimed singer and actress Ali Harper starts today at Rangi Ruru Girls' School as Artist-in-Residence.

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Make sure you don't end up having a horse showering in your rental.

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CANTERBURY — “We really wanted this to signal positive and real progress but it doesn’t.” That from Southern No Response (SNR) co-organiser Ali Jones after Southern Response CEO Peter Rose responded to claimant’s deadlines yesterday.

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CANTERBURY — Southern Response / Arrow International clients are gearing up for their promised return to the Christchurch offices, on Monday.

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CHRISTCHURCH — South Island law firm Lane Neave has won the 2013 Insurance Law Award in the ninth annual New Zealand Law Awards.

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