Win a trip to Napa Valley with the Great Wine Capitals Bloggers Contest!

If you write a blog about tourism or wine tourism you can win a trip to the Great Wine Capital of San Francisco | Napa Valley by taking part in the Great Wine Capitals Guest Blogger Contest.

Your post needs to feature wine tourism in our local Great Wine Capital - Christchurch I South Island (this includes Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, Waipara Valley and Central Otago) or a property or organisation that has won a Best Of Wine Tourism Award - for our previous winners see http://www.southislandwine.co.nz/awards.asp

You can check the official rules and enter on the Great Wine Capitals website: http://greatwinecapitals.com/forms/great-wine-capitals-guest-blogger-contest

The contest closes on September 30, 2013.

ENDS

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New Court Orders, Screening, Guardianship Changes...: Government Ignoring Poverty, Again

It remains to be seen if announcements today will better protect children, but the National Government is forgoing an opportunity to really help kids by ignoring the elephant in the room, which is poverty, Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei says.

"All the experts have told the Government that very low income is associated with higher rates of child maltreatment and neglect -- something which was totally ignored in the Government's Children's Action Plan and the announcements today," Mrs Turei said. More>>