Leon Macdonald

Leon Macdonald READ MAGAZINE Tough coaching pays off for Leon BY GEOFF MOFFETT He went on to a stellar career with the All Blacks, but Tasman Makos coach Leon MacDonald had thugs and gods against him in his teenage rep debut for Marlborough, Geoff Moffett reports. Could a 16-year-old future All Black have a shakier start … Read more

PHOTO BY ISHNA JACOBS READ MAGAZINE BY MAIKE VAN DER HEIDE Just five years after Craig and Kellie Hamilton started Mike Pero Real Estate and the company sold its first house, it is fast going from strength to strength. The franchise has just won the Mike Pero supreme award for the South Island and was … Read more

Trish Drummond and Carlton Richards

John Palmer

  READ MAGAZINE Photo: Jose G Cano photography BY HELEN ROSE Sustainability is the name of the game these days, especially when it comes to timber windows. Many builders and home owners are opting for timber windows – and doors – made from renewable resources with low carbon footprints. The end result is they not … Read more

John Palmer READ MAGAZINE BY LYNDA PAPESCH With a life-time of outstanding business accolades to his credit already, Nelsonian John Palmer still has one more to add to the list. Chairman of the newly transitioned Nelson Regional Development Agency (NRDA), John has given himself until the end of next year to help develop and promulgate … Read more

READ FULL ARTICLE Curious kea investigate a logging site near Murchison (photo: Corey Mosen) Andrea Goodman from the Kea Conservation Trust trials the kea play gym at a forestry site near St Arnaud (photo: John Henderson) Contact nelsonforests.co.nz keaconservation.co.nz