Tim Cronshaw

New Zealand

Writer at Otago Daily Times

Journalist. Writer. Husband. Father. Contact [email protected]

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Articles

South Canterbury team extends best cheese-maker award streak

5 days ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Rural lifeDairyFonterra’s Clandeboye team has extended its run as the co-op’s best cheese-makers for a key market in a five-year streak.
Multi-unit builds continue to gain ground

5 days ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

Christchurch’s horizon is being filled by more residential multi-units, mainly within the central city and surrounding margins. From January to May, the city council’s building consent team issued 192 code compliance certificates (CCCs) for new multi-unit dwellings – a 56% increase on the five-year average of 123 for the same period. The certificate confirms a build meets all consented requirements and is complete. The central city remains the hotspot, with 36 CCCs issued in the past five months.
Investor backing sought by bovine collagen company

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Rural lifeOther NewsA Christchurch biotech company extracting an innovative protein from sheepskins to make mainly health benefit and nutrition ingredients for export markets is about to launch a capital raise. Tertiary Extracts Ōtautahi (TEO) has quickly grown to 30 staff and set up a factory processing more than 550 tonnes of waste sheepskins into collagen since beginning operations last year.
Industry impressed by chainsaw drone work

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

Monday, 16 June 2025 You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. CanterburyChristchurchA chainsaw drone developed by a University of Canterbury team to cut wrist-size branches in hazardous areas may be commercialised soon.
Industry impressed by chainsaw drone work

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Rural lifeA chainsaw drone developed by a University of Canterbury team to cut wrist-size branches in hazardous areas may be commercialised soon. The team led by computer science professor Richard Green and mechanical engineering professor Dan Zhao has spent eight years designing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as precision tools for challenging environments.
Perplexity over wait to make Pharmac list

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. BusinessMedsalv Founder Oliver Hunt remains baffled it has taken so long for its remanufactured medical products to be added to Pharmac’s hospital medical devices list. The Christchurch company has just learned it will be added to the list by the government agency.
Mill sale awaits Commerce Commission approval

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. BusinessThe sale of a farmer-owned flour mill in South Canterbury’s Washdyke must get Commerce Commission clearance to go ahead. The commission has received an application from George Weston Foods, trading as Mauri New Zealand, to buy the wheat milling and storage assets, including land, used by Farmers Mill.
Biotech company seeking investors

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. CanterburyBusinessA Christchurch biotech company extracting an innovative protein from sheepskins to make mainly health benefit and nutrition ingredients for export markets is about to launch a capital raise. Tertiary Extracts Ōtautahi (TEO) has quickly grown to 30 staff and set up a factory processing more than 550 tonnes of waste sheepskins into collagen since beginning operations last year.
Record set in closing auction

4 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. BusinessChristchurch's Mr Mod is going out on a high note with a pair of 1960s armchairs selling for a world record price at the auction of his large mid-century furniture collection. Ross Morrison signed off as a collector and dealer after the two-day auction of 674 lots last weekend culminated in bidding reaching $13,500 for the teak armchairs by Danish designer Erik Kirkegaard.
Armchairs sell for world record price

1 month ago | odt.co.nz | Tim Cronshaw

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. CanterburyChristchurchChristchurch’s Mr Mod is going out on a high note with a pair of 1960s armchairs selling for a world record price at the auction of his large mid-century furniture collection.