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Kilted Kiwi Maitland named on Lions bench
Kilted Kiwi Sean Maitland is set to come off the bench in the first Test against the Wallabies in Saturday night's first Test against the ...
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Man in court after pregnant woman stabbed today
Photo / File A man will appear in court this afternoon after a 22-year-old pregnant woman was stabbed this morning. The alleged attack happened in Manukau this morning. The woman is understood to be in a stable condition in Middlemore Hospital. A spokeswoman for police said a 22-year-old man was charged with wounding and would appear in Manukau District Court this afternoon. ...
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Man fined for pushing bicycle into path of off-duty cops car
Photo / File A West Coast man who pushed a bicycle into the path of a car, only to find the driver was an off-duty policeman, appeared in court yesterday. Jonty Charles Pickett, 18, was convicted of two counts of breaching the Greymouth liquor ban, disorderly behaviour and resisting arrest after the incident in March, when he got drunk and pushed the bike in front of a car. When two other ...
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Address to the EMA Central North Island Annual Payroll Conference
I’d like to thank you for inviting me to join you today. As the Member for Rotorua and the Minister of Revenue, it is especially appropriate that my first speech to a conference in my new portfolio is to you today. While the portfolio is new to me, I am no stranger to the world of tax, having served on Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure committee (known in Wellington as the ...
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Mana Party announces big housing plan
The Mana Party wants to build 10,000 state houses a year. Mana's Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate Te Hamua Nikora announced the party's housing policy today in Pomare, in the Hutt Valley. He said Mana would build 10,000 state houses a year, 500 of them immediately in Ikaroa-Rawhiti. Its policy includes reinstating the Maori Affairs Housing Scheme which ended in 1989. The ...
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Hoyts New Zealand Premieres ‘King of the Railway’
'King of the Railway' There's a surprise in store on the Island of Sodor! Thomas is back with old friends in the next thrilling, feature--length adventure, ...
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Animal Limb Find Highlights Biosecurity Weakness
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:51 pm Press Release: New Zealand First Party Richard Prosser MPSpokesperson for Biosecurity20 June 2013Animal Limb Find Highlights Biosecurity WeaknessNew Zealand First says the discovery of part of an animal limb in a shipment of Palm Kernel extract from Asia shows the Government's "hands off" approach to biosecurity is failing.Biosecurity ...
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Grim But True Reading for NZ in Human Trafficking Report
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:06 pm Press Release: New Zealand First Party Rt Hon Winston PetersNew Zealand First Leader20 June 2013 Grim But True Reading for NZ in Human Trafficking ReportRt Hon Winston Peters says the latest report from the United States pointing the finger at New Zealand for forced labour and sex trafficking of underage girls simply confirms a situation that the ...
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Colony systems are still cages
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:03 pm Press Release: Green Party 20 June 2013Colony systems are still cages Colony systems are still cages, and describing them as cage-free egg production is misleading, the Green Party said today.This was in response to the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) release today of their proposed changes to the layer hens code of welfare. The NAWAC ...
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Strong support at The Roxy for charity
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:10 pm Press Release: The Roxy Cinema Strong support at The Roxy for charityAn enduring partnership between iconic Wellington cinema The Roxy and Ronald McDonald House Wellington has been cemented following last Friday's The Roxy Great Gatsby Charity Ball.The Charity Ball, held on Friday 14 June, was held in support of the Wellington-based charity, which ...
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Car drag kidnapper had been smoking drugs continuously
Source: ONE News A Rotorua man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping his partner in an incident which saw her dragged behind a car said he had been smoking drugs continuously since being released from prison three weeks beforehand. Sonny Tearamoana Waiti, 26, appeared briefly in Rotorua District Court this morning following the incident near Tokoroa on May 25. He was flanked by police guards in ...
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Live updates Winter blast
A spokesperson for Queenstown's Winter Festival says the event is due to continue this weekend despite the snow storm forecasted for the region over the next few ...
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Family fears for mother missing for 12 days
Fears for missing woman in Northland The family of a Northland mother who has been missing for 12 days have become "increasingly worried", police say. Barbara Ann Moka, 32, was last seen on June 9 at a Tangi at the Te Piiti Marae, Omanaia, near Rawene. Miss Moka and her partner, aged 43 years, left the marae together in a 1996 Blue Honda Accord station wagon. They were reportedly ...
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Scammer who faked credit applications pleads guilty
Photo / File A scammer who faked credit applications to get aviation gas, rent, TVs, groceries, even a temporary liquor licence, has pleaded guilty today. Ray Vincent Bishop, 24, used his fraudulent scheme in Nelson, Wellington and Taupo to rack up crimes with a price-tag of more than $48,000. But police eventually caught up with him, and he appeared in the dock at Christchurch ...
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NZ at Noon Help warms victims hearts - and hands
Benjamin Foster, 6, with firewood donated to his family after all their wood was stolen. Photo / Joel Ford Stories making headlines around the regions today include the good Samaritans helping out a cancer sufferer whose firewood was stolen, and a man's first-hand account of the 'evils' of synthetic cannabis. Offers of help have been flooding in for the Foster family who had all ...
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New Zealand reports tepid growth
(22 mins ago) New Zealand's economic growth slowed to a crawl in the first quarter of 2013 as a major drought hit the farming sector, official data show. Statistics New Zealand said gross domestic product expanded just 0.3 percent in the three months to March 31, about half the level the market expected. It said the drought meant agricultural output slipped 4.7 percent in the quarter and ...
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Councillor recovering after stroke
Rotorua district councillor Maureen Waaka is recovering in Auckland City Hospital after suffering a stroke. Mrs Waaka had a stroke on Sunday, while in Auckland for work commitments. Her husband John Waaka said his wife had been left weak down her left side, but was able to move her limbs. He said she was responding well to treatment, although it was still early ...
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New Zealand Laboratories Win International Design Awards
Specialist laboratory architects, Lab-works Architecture have been recognised overnight at the S-Lab Conference and Awards in Liverpool, England. With two of their recent science facilities making the short list for the International Laboratory Buildings category, it is a laboratory refurbishment project at Scion in Rotorua that has won the award. While the new laboratory fit-out in the ...
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Waikato DHB Celebrates Boom in Immigrant Volunteers
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 12:41 pm Press Release: Waikato District Health Board Thursday 20 June Waikato DHB Celebrates Boom in Immigrant VolunteersAs Waikato DHB celebrates its ...
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Residents Rate Council Service Highly
The vast majority of South Taranaki residents are happy with the service council provides according to an independent survey.The National Research Bureau (NRB) telephone poll of 403 residents across all five South Taranaki wards found that 91% of residents were happy with the overall service the Council provides, while 4% were not satisfied and 5% were unable to comment. Overall 74% of ...
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Enterprising Auckland students make ‘all star’ team
Auckland has maintained its record for producing outstanding young entrepreneurs, contributing half of the six-person 'all star' team of Young Enterprise Scheme students selected to take part in the FedEx International Trade Challenge in August.The New Zealand team - which will take on eight Asia-Pacific countries' 48 representatives in Hong Kong - was named at the end of ...
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Growing Concern For Missing Rawene Woman
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 12:29 pm Press Release: New Zealand Police Growing Concern For Missing Rawene WomanWith a 32-year-old Rawene woman still missing after 12 days, Police are urging the public to come forward with any information that may help locate her.Barbara Ann Moka was last seen on Sunday June 9 and had attended a Tangi at the Te Piiti Marae, Omanaia (near Rawene). Barbara and ...
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Appeal Trust grants $500000 to assist Cholmondel rebuild
Cholmondeley Children's Centre is delighted to announce it has been granted $500,000 from the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust towards rebuilding Cholmondeley.The original Cholmondeley Homestead, built in 1925, was terminally damaged in the February 22, 2011 earthquake and deconstructed in 2012."This significant donation from the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust is a ...
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Otago flood conditions update Thursday 20 June 2013 1000hrs
Thursday 20 June 2013 1000hrs Heavy rain on the Taieri Plain 75mm at Riccarton Road in the past 24 hours - has caused further localised flooding. The Silver Stream reached 55 cumecs early this morning but did not reach the level of the Gordon Road spillway, and since has since been dropping. Dunedin has had 35 mm of rain. Some surface flooding has occurred in the Milton-Tokomairiro ...
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Dunedin landslide causing major problems
Raw footage: Early morning shots of Dunedin slip (0:16) Several properties in Dunedin had to be evacuated last night after bad weather caused two landslides. A major slip near Sawyers Bay has closed two roads today and caused a resident to be evacuated late last night. Dunedin City Council Roading Maintenance Engineer Peter Standring said that the slip occurred about 100 metres from the ...
Auckland Feature Story
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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