Bowater Honda plants more trees at Tahunanui's Back Beach
Today Bowater Honda held another successful Honda TreeFund tree planting day at the back beach of Tahunanui Beach as a part of the council's sand dune recovery programme.
To date Bowater Honda has provided over $70,000 worth of funding for over 13,500 trees which have been planted on Tahunanui Beach, in Appleby, the Moutere and on Haulashore Island.
Today the team from Bowater Honda, along with some dedicated local customers, turned up at the "Raised Carpark" on the Back Beach Road to literally plant a truck load of trees into the sand dunes to aid in the sand dune recovery.
As one of the local customers commented "it is a whole lot easier planting trees in the sand than in the Moutere clay!", referencing a previous Bowater Honda TreeFund Tree Planting Day.
- Maarten van Geldermalsen & Martin Bonny from Nelmac planting the dunes
- The Raised Carpark with the Nelmac truck full of trees & grasses to be planted
- Part of the treefund planting brigade - what a day to be doing this!
- Local Bowater Honda customer Maarten van Geldermalsen
- Martin Bonny from Nelmac, Maarten van Geldermalsen holding the grasses, Matt Enright from Bowater Honda & Janny van Geldermalsen
- Martin Bonny from Nelmac, Maarten van Geldermalsen, Matt Enright from Bowater Honda & Janny van Geldermalsen
- Some of the trees & shrubs planted to help build the sand dunes back up.
The planting day is a result of Honda’s unique TreeFund initiative. Passionate about restoring bio-diversity, Honda developed TreeFund as an opportunity for customers to become involved in the greening of their own local community and to encourage the planting of native flora. With 13 native trees planted for every new car sold, Honda has been funding tree plantings nationally since 2004, and to date over half a million trees have been planted around the country.
Honda TreeFund Planting Day
We are very excited to announce that Bowater Honda are conducting another Honda TreeFund Planting Day on Wednesday 19th September from 10am - 12pm at the Raised Carpark at Tahunanui Beach.
This is the first carpark on the right as you drive past the Skating Rink on the way to the back beach. Just drive down the back Beach Road and look for the Nelmac trucks, and the Honda sign written vehicles. You don't need to bring anything other than a great attitude and a caring community spirit. If you have a favourite spade bring that along too!
The Raised Carpark is at the very north of this map - the car park from which the Kite Surfing is normally based. We would love to see as many community minded locals down here as we can get.
Napier retiree wins the Hyundai i30
Hyundai New Zealand is proud to announce that retired real-estate agent Vivienne Bidwell is the winner of a brand new Hyundai i30 hatchback car and the If you can start it, you can win it online competition.
General Manager Andy Sinclair says a secret delivery to Vivienne was arranged this afternoon at Napier’s Milk and Honey café and they caught it all on video.
“Needless to say, she was totally over the moon when she saw it. We couldn’t be happier for Vivienne. It’s a beautiful car for people who appreciate style and are on the go – we hope she enjoys it for years to come.”
Toyota to tow Space Shuttle in the USA
Toyota is set to “go boldy” as one of its pickup trucks has been chosen to tow the Space Shuttle Endeavour to its final resting place at the California Science Center on October 13, 2012.
Endeavour will be flown to California on the back of a specially adapted Boeing 747, before it travels 12 miles from Los Angeles International Airport to the city’s Science Centre.
The US built and sold Tundra will tow the orbiter for the last leg of this journey. The space plane, which weighs 78,000kgs, will be mounted on a special trailer, shown below.
The car used to tow will be identical to models currently found in Toyota’s American dealerships, with no additional modifications made to increase towing capacity or generate more power.
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