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QEII Site Update - No Asbestos Risk At Track
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One week to feedback on draft Unitary Plan
Aucklanders have one week to feedback on the draft Auckland Unitary Plan and Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse is urging people to make sure they have had their say."We are undertaking the largest planning process in New Zealand's history, creating a rulebook that will guide Auckland and how it grows over the next 30 years. "I never expected anything less than robust debate and ...
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Dominion Finance boss jailed
Dominion Finance boss Paul Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months imprisonment. Justice Graham Lang delivered the sentence at Auckland High Court late this afternoon. Cropp, who turned 50 yesterday, ...
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NZ meat cleared across Chinese wharves ministry chided for mistake
New Zealand meat has been cleared to move across Chinese wharves as soon as next week though the administrative logjam has been sheeted home to the Ministry for Primary Industries. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy announced the breakthrough while chiding his department for submitting paperwork in a format that hadn't yet been approved by China's General Administration of ...
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Kiwi at 8-month low after Chinese manufacturing slows Bernanke says watch data
The New Zealand dollar fell to an eight-month low after figures indicated Chinese manufacturing shrank this month and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told politicians quantitative easing could be tapered off if the world's biggest economy keeps getting better. The kiwi fell as low as 80.15 US cents, trading at 80.26 cents at 5pm in Wellington from 80.69 cents at 8am, tumbling from ...
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Dealer fined $42000 over fake Trade Me bids
Source: ONE News Auckland car dealer The Auto Co (Millennium) Ltd has been fined $42,000 for what TradeMe says is the biggest ever episode of fake bidding on the site. The car dealership pleaded guilty to 13 charges under the Fair Trading Act and has already had to pay more than $122,000 in compensation to affected customers. TradeMe says the company made more than 7000 fake bids on up to ...
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Man sentenced for indecent assault after giving 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis
File photo / Sarah Ivey A 43-year-old man who gave a 12-year-old girl synthetic cannabis and put his hand up her skirt when she passed out avoided being sent to jail today. The judge hit out against legal highs during sentencing, they were filling up her courtroom and causing widespread social problems. Long-time cannabis and synthetic user Kirk Daniel Rutledge, 42, had smoked the ...
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Doctor avoids conviction after slapping wife
File photo / NZ Herald A doctor who has admitted slapping his wife three times in the face has escaped conviction. The doctor, in his 60s, appeared in Auckland District Court today where he was granted interim name suppression to protect the identity of his family. The doctor's lawyer Ron Mansfield told the court how his client was dedicated to working in his community and had been under ...
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Man walks off in stolen boots
Photo / Thinkstock A Greymouth fisherman claims he was so drunk that he walked out of The Warehouse without paying for the socks and boots he had donned in the store. In the Greymouth District Court, Caden John Dash, 18, was fined $700 and ordered to pay $50 reparation after he admitted the shoplifting charge, plus other charges of unlawfully firing an air rifle near a dwelling and ...
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Drug-ring head waits on leave to appeal
File Photo / NZ Herald The Supreme Court has reserved its ruling on whether to grant a Far North man - dubbed a drug kingpin for ruling over a multimillion-dollar dealing network - leave to appeal his conviction for manufacturing and supplying methamphetamine, cocaine, cannabis oil and ecstasy. Maxwell John Beckham, 66, from Mangonui, was found guilty of 24 charges after a six-week ...
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Dominion Finance chief executive jailed
Former Dominion Finance chief executive Paul William Cropp has been sentenced to two years and seven months in prison. Cropp, 50, was found guilty last month on four charges of theft by a person in a special relationship. The Serious Fraud Office, which brought the proceedings against Cropp, argued he knowingly and deliberately breached the requirements of Dominion's debenture trust deed or that ...
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Resolution of New Zealand meat exports to China
Resolution of New Zealand meat exports to China A resolution has been agreed which should see authorities clearing New Zealand meat exports to China from next week, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced."Chinese authorities have agreed they will begin releasing consignments under the name of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority."Officials are working around the ...
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More children getting help to see
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 3:25 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Tony RyallMinister of Health23 May 2013More children getting help to seeMore young New Zealanders in need of glasses to correct their vision have received free spectacles through a Government-funded subsidy."More than 28,000 children aged 15 years or under had their eyes tested and were given glasses if ...
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Disaster averted for state sector workers
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 3:23 pm Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party David CunliffeAssociate Finance Spokesperson23 May 2013Disaster averted for state sector workersChanges forced to the State Sector and Public Finance Reform Bill (SSPFRB) by Labour and the state sector unions have averted disaster for government workers who were set to lose their redundancy entitlements and ...
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Lack of Remorse from Police Wont Restore Tūhoe Relationship
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 3:13 pm Press Release: The Maori Party Te Ururoa FlavellMP for Waiariki 23rd May 2013Lack of Genuine Remorse from Police Will Not Restore Tuhoe RelationshipWaiariki MP, Te Ururoa Flavell, has continued his call for accountability in the wake of the damning IPCA report into Operation Eight."The Authority found there was no lawful basis for the roadblocks at ...
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Letter to Hon. Gerry Brownlee
The following letter which has been sent to Minister Gerry Brownlee was also originally cced to John Campbell - Campbell Live, Ian Simpson - EQC Chief Executive, Michael Wintringham - EQC Board Chair, Lyn Provost - Office of the Auditor General, Dame Beverley Wakem DNZM CBE - Parliamentary Ombudsmen, David Rutherford - Human Rights Commission, Gabriel Makhlouf - Secretary to the ...
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NZ’s Clean Green Image a Lure For Chinese Visitors
May 23, 2013 New Zealand's clean, green image is a key reason why a record number of Chinese tourists are flocking to New Zealand, a University of Canterbury (UC) Chinese language lecturer says.A record number of visitors arrived in New Zealand last month, with Chinese tourists showing the biggest increase. Arrivals in April reached 200,600 - up 3 per cent from the same time last ...
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More help needed for New Zealands 25000 P users
Smugglers use baby prams to conceal drugs More help needs to be given to the 25,000 people in New Zealand who are still long-term P users, the Drug Foundation says. The latest Government report into tackling methamphetamine use in New Zealand was released today, which Prime Minister John Key said showed positive results. "When the Government began this plan in 2009, New Zealand had one of ...
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Safety warning after workers almost hit by train
Source: ONE News Improvements to KiwiRail's safety systems have been recommended after two track workers were nearly hit by a commuter train north of Wellington. The workers were operating in a protected area in August 2011 on the Kapiti line between Waikanae and Wellington, when another worker in charge of protecting them allowed a passenger train to pass without checking they were ...
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Denniston coal mine missed opportunity - Labour
Mining experts strategise to re-enter Pike River The Government's decision to grant consent for an open cast mining project on the West Coast has been criticised by Labour as a missed opportunity. Conservation Minister Nick Smith confirmed this afternoon that Bathurst Resources has been given consent under the Crown Minerals Act to dig an open-cast mine on 106 hectares of the 2026 hectares ...
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Gigolo providing home-delivered sex unfazed by Kiwi MPs male bordello plan
A male escort who has been providing his 'services' for 14 years in New Zealand, said women wouldn't want to visit a brothel, but want sex home-delivered. The statement comes after former MP Pam Corkery's plan of opening a brothel for women in New Zealand was announced yesterday. Adagio, as he calls himself, said if women wanted sex, they'd want it to be discreet and ...
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Crown appeals manifestly inadequate sentence
Darren Fidow. Photo / Supplied A man who was sentenced to home detention after permanently disabling an elderly woman when he robbed her of her bag at an Auckland shopping mall was given a "manifestly inadequate" sentence, a court has been told. Today at the Court of Appeal, the Crown appealed against the home-based sentence given to Darren Murphy Fidow, who attacked 81-year-old ...
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Switched On Gardener pair appealing sentences
Peter Bennett (left) and Michael Quinlan were found guilty of dealing in cannabis-growing equipment. Photo / Greg Bowker The two men at the top of the Switched on Gardener chain are appealing their convictions and sentences. Owner Michael Quinlan was sentenced to four years and three months in jail last month. He had been convicted of possessing and supplying equipment to grow cannabis ...
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Nine-year-old spoken to about fires
Photo / File A 9-year-old boy is being spoken to by police Youth Aid after two fires in quick succession in Bay of Islands businesses. The first fire started in a clothing rack at The Warehouse in Waipapa about 1.45pm on Tuesday. Sergeant Peter Masters, of Paihia police, said damage was kept to a minimum by a customer's quick response and the store's good fire procedures. The store ...
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Council removes cat shelter
Photo / File photo The Far North District Council has removed a cat feeding shelter at Paihia. The crackdown against 86-year-old Betty Chapman and her team of volunteers feeding 10 stray cats at a Paihia reserve has created controversy, with cat lovers so critical of the council action their vitriolic emails have drawn accusations of cyber bullying. Council communications officer Richard ...
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New Zealand stepping up for regional fisheries
New Zealand is regional power in the Pacific and this is reflected in our ongoing involvement in the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, which is the mechanism by which the region manages one of its greatest natural resources.
New Zealand has long been a regional power in the South Pacific, and in this capacity the country has lead a number of major initiatives undertaken alone or in conjunction with other Pacific Island nations, the most important of these have been policies aimed at environmental protection and sustainability, as well as monitoring and rehabilitation of important environmental resources, such as the Pacific fisheries. Read more
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