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Pumpkin Patch adds Briscoe boss Rod Duke to board
(Fixes error in 2nd graph identifying Duke as audit committee chair) By Hannah Lynch May 31 (BusinessDesk) - Pumpkin Patch, the children’s clothing retailer, has announced two new directors will join its board, one of whom is Briscoe Group managing director Rod Duke. Duke wil...

Solid Energy identifies fourfold increase in Taranaki coal seam gas reserves
By Pattrick Smellie May 31 (BusinessDesk) - State-owned coal miner Solid Energy's estimate of potentially recoverable coal seam gas reserves in its onshore Taranaki permit areas has identified a fourfold increase and will see the company concentrate its CSG activities there. H...

China Taiping Insurance halts new cover in quake-prone Wellington, Canterbury
By Paul McBeth May 31 (BusinessDesk) - China Taiping Insurance (NZ), the local unit of the Hong Kong exchange-listed insurer, has told brokers it won't underwrite any new business in Wellington or Canterbury as it clamps down on its criteria at the behest of reinsurers. The in...