Benefactor - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 02 May 2019 01:22:26 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Benefactor - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Auckland businessman invests $450,000 in free lunches for Taita College students https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/05/02/businessman-invests-450000-free-lunches/ Thu, 02 May 2019 07:50:38 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=117171 Taita College students are being provided with free lunches as part of a programme that could one day be rolled out across New Zealand. Libelle Group, Auckland-based school food and drink provider, is running a pilot programme providing sandwiches or a hot meal, fruit, muffin, yoghurt or milk at the Lower Hutt school. Continue reading Read more

Auckland businessman invests $450,000 in free lunches for Taita College students... Read more]]> Taita College students are being provided with free lunches as part of a programme that could one day be rolled out across New Zealand.

Libelle Group, Auckland-based school food and drink provider, is running a pilot programme providing sandwiches or a hot meal, fruit, muffin, yoghurt or milk at the Lower Hutt school. Continue reading

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Auckland businessman invests $450,000 in free lunches for Taita College students]]> 117171 Sir Pat Goodman farewelled in home town of Motueka https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/09/18/goodman-farewelled/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:52:33 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=99534 The prominent businessman Sir Patrick Goodman, who turned his family baking business in Motueka into a global enterprise, was laid to rest in his hometown of Motueka on Monday. Sir Patrick Goodman was the founding chairman of Quality Bakers New Zealand, which merged with Fielder Gillespie Davis and Allied Mills of Australia and Wattie Industries to become Read more

Sir Pat Goodman farewelled in home town of Motueka... Read more]]> The prominent businessman Sir Patrick Goodman, who turned his family baking business in Motueka into a global enterprise, was laid to rest in his hometown of Motueka on Monday.

Sir Patrick Goodman was the founding chairman of Quality Bakers New Zealand, which merged with Fielder Gillespie Davis and Allied Mills of Australia and Wattie Industries to become Goodman Fielder Wattie in 1987.

Nearly 400 people filled St Peter Chanel Catholic Church for the service on Monday morning. Continue reading

Sir Pat Goodman farewelled in home town of Motueka]]> 99534 Wellington benefactor gifts $50 million for new children's hospital https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/07/10/benefactor-50-million-childrens-hospital/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:52:02 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=96244 Property developer Mark Dunajtschik has gifted $50 million to build a new children's hospital in Wellington, in an act described by the Government as "unparalleled" generosity. The new hospital for the Wellington region is expected to be around 7,000 square metres, three floors, and include 50 inpatient hospital beds. Continue reading  

Wellington benefactor gifts $50 million for new children's hospital... Read more]]> Property developer Mark Dunajtschik has gifted $50 million to build a new children's hospital in Wellington, in an act described by the Government as "unparalleled" generosity.

The new hospital for the Wellington region is expected to be around 7,000 square metres, three floors, and include 50 inpatient hospital beds. Continue reading

 

Wellington benefactor gifts $50 million for new children's hospital]]> 96244 Couple give away $20 million from property sale https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/18/charities-to-benefit-from-20-million-property-sale/ Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:50:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=76782 A Christchurch couple who own a $20 million-plus property will sell it and give away all the proceeds. Marilyn and Grant Nelson are selling their commercial site on the corner of Blenheim and Curletts roads, which they own through their charitable trust the Gama Foundation. The self-made and publicity-shy couple have already given millions of Read more

Couple give away $20 million from property sale... Read more]]> A Christchurch couple who own a $20 million-plus property will sell it and give away all the proceeds.

Marilyn and Grant Nelson are selling their commercial site on the corner of Blenheim and Curletts roads, which they own through their charitable trust the Gama Foundation.

The self-made and publicity-shy couple have already given millions of dollars of rental income to conservation, research, disability, and educational causes, and were awarded Queen's Service Medals for their philanthropy in 2011. Grant Nelson has been blind most of his life. Continue reading

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