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Blue whales may be feeding in NZ waters
The biggest creature on the planet seems to have taken a liking to New Zealand waters. NIWA scientists studying the blue whale say the massive marine mammal may be feeding in local waters, rather than just passing through. "In the southern hemisphere, there are only four documented foraging grounds outside Antarctic waters, so if in fact this is a blue whale foraging ground it's ...
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Child pornographer to be deported to New Zealand
Jeffrey Frank Chadwick was jailed in 2011 after he was found guilty of 18 pornography-related charges. Photo / Thinkstock A child pornographer who took photos of his children's friends is the latest criminal who will be deported to New Zealand from Australia. Jeffrey Frank Chadwick was jailed in 2011 after he was found guilty of 18 pornography-related charges. He took dozens of ...
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Light session for All Blacks at camp
It was all indoors and mostly non-physical on the opening day of the first All Blacks wider training group camp in Mt Maunganui today. With the Highlanders in South Africa and the Crusaders and Blues exempted from the gym work, having played the previous night, it was all fairly low key as the All Blacks selectors went over game plans with players for next month's three-test series ...
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Help me bring my boy home
. "All I want to do is pick that little boy up and take him out of that shithole and pop him next to his granddad so we can go and see him every day . . . give him a Christian burial. "What do I do? Put it in my will to be buried at Pike River, so I am buried next to my son, my only son . . . the only son I will ever have?" Joseph died just one day after his 17th ...
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About-face means more choc in block
Cadbury has fired the latest salvo in the Kiwi chocolate wars, backtracking on an earlier decision to cut the size of their family range of chocolate blocks. Tomorrow the company will unveil a new-look chocolate block that is 10 per cent bigger and features larger, rounder pieces. The 200g block will be increased to 220g for the same price. Managing director Alastair de Raadt said ...
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Earthquake rattles the south
A shallow earthquake has struck west of Te Anau in the deep south. Centred 25km from Te Anau, at 8.22pm GeoNet reports the 4.3 magnitude quake hit at a depth of 5km. It was believed to have been widely felt in the deep ...
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Man dead woman wounded in Northland shooting
A 38-year-old man will appear in the Kaitaia District Court tomorrow charged with murder. A 44-year-old man was killed and a 38-year-old woman critically injured after a shooting in Fairburn, just east of Kaitaia, this morning. Police have a team of 22 officers investigating "a serious incident involving a firearm" that occurred in the rural location. The man was found ...
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Auckland housing intensification haphazard
Rethink the plan or rethink the council. This was the unanimous message from 500 Aucklanders gathered tonight at Takapuna Grammar School to discuss Auckland Council’s intensification plans. The meeting was organised by resident-led group Auckland 2040 whose goal was to encourage 50,000 people to give feedback to the council on what they believed was a "haphazard, ...
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Australia set to return paedophile to NZ
A paedophile who took photos of his children's friends as they played together looks set to be returned to New Zealand from Australia. Jeffrey Chadwick is the latest in a string of potentially-dangerous criminals who will have their residency status revoked across the Tasman after finishing jail terms. The spotlight is on public access to criminal histories after the murder of ...
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Highlanders season of woes continues
The Highlanders awful season continued with a 35-18 loss to the Bulls in Pretoria this morning. Down 23-6 at halftime, the Highlanders lacked any sort of penetration against a Bulls team which is unbeaten at Loftus Versfeld this season. The Highlanders spent 20 minutes of the second half down to 14 men because of yellow cards and twice had to resort to non-contested scrums after ...
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NZ close to Taiwan free trade agreement
New Zealand is poised to sign its first free trade agreement in more than three years, with an announcement of a deal with Taiwan expected in the coming months. Sources say negotiations have been progressing smoothly and the most complicated issues, including the vexed issue of Taiwan's complicated relationship with mainland China, are already largely resolved. Assuming it is ...
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Cash taken in night bar robbery
A man armed with a rifle robbed a Hastings bar last night, striking an employee with the firearm before fleeing. The male confronted two staff members at the Horse & Hound Bar & Cafe on Karamu Rd at about 10pm. Detective Sergeant Craig Vining said the man demanded cash, but despite the staff complying completely with his directions one was struck with the rifle. "We ...
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Missing Pukekohe woman worries police
Police have concerns for the safety of a Pukekohe woman who was last seen almost 100 kilometres north of her home. Ngaire Gibbons, a 63-year-old Maori, was last seen yesterday at 4pm in Puhoi – more than an hour's drive from where she lives. She is described as 1.6 metres (5 feet 3 inches) tall, of plump build, long black-grey shoulder-length hair and walks with a slight ...
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Four Dargaville crash victims recovering
The four survivors of a crash, which killed another person in Dargaville on Friday night, are all expected to survive. Police are yet to name the person who died after a car hit a power pole on Pouto Rd at 11.30pm. The collision brought powerlines to the ground, cutting electricity to a number of homes. A Northland DHB spokeswoman said two of the injured people were discharged ...
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Greens plan Kiwi Bid in oil drilling fight
The Green Party today announced its plan to take on deep-sea oil drilling companies in New Zealand waters. At west-coast town Piha this afternoon, party co-leader Metiria Turei said the new campaign – dubbed The Kiwi Bid – will invite people to be part of a rival tender to protect the environment. "While the Government is giving oil companies the right to bid to ...
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Thousands attend Aucklands literature festival
A record number of literature lovers have turned out to celebrate the written word in Auckland. Over 13,000 people took part in the Writers and Readers Festival, organisers say, with 34,000 seats filled over the five days of events. Hundreds of sessions and workshops were available as part of the festival, including a lecture by nonagenarian Lloyd Geering called 'How Humans Made God' ...
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Bill English signals interest rates rise
The Finance Minister has signalled interest rates may rise in the next year, but says measures in last week's Budget should relieve pressure on house prices. On TV ONE's Q+A this morning, English said the market has indicated interest rates are likely to rise "some time late this year or next year." While this could be gloomy news for first time home buyers, English ...
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Auckland City get job done on Waitakere
Auckland have won their third Oceania Champions League title in a row, after beating Waitakere United 2-1 at Mt Smart today. Two first-half goals in three minutes from Adam Dickinson and Alex Feneridis were to be enough for City, despite Waitakere pulling a goal back just before half-time. Waitakere' cause was not helped by the dismissal of defender Tim Myers. The result ...
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China customs issue keeps NZ meat off shelves
Chinese supermarkets are beginning to run out of New Zealand beef and lamb as Kiwi meat remains stuck at ports around China. Officials say they are working "around the clock" to resolve the issue but the Government is giving no timetable for when the stalled shipments will be cleared. It emerged on Friday that all meat exports to China have been blocked from entering the ...
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Time for Palmy to let it go
Ok Palmy, let's just get it over with. Let's put behind us the shame of John Cleese and his "thoroughly bloody miserable time", and the pride at Jeremy Clarkson's assertion that if God had got it right then "Jesus would have been from Palmerston North". Let's forget about Lord Palmerston, the man who gave you that great name and let's move ...
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Students left to learn the hard way
Postgraduate students are working long, minimum-wage hours, selling their cars and moving in with their parents to complete degrees, after losing $240 a week in student allowance. The Government's scrapping of the postgraduate student allowance at the beginning of the year has been reflected in falling domestic numbers at New Zealand universities. Before January, student ...
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Catholic Church powerless in face of extreme fringe
A radical group that sent emails to MPs saying they were "on the road to hell for all eternity" if they voted in favour of the Marriage Amendment Bill has been told to stop claiming to be Catholic - but the Catholic Church admits it has no power to enforce the ruling. The Catholic Bishops Conference has told the Catholic Action Group it doesn't have permission to use the ...
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Drug charge cop loved his job says loyal wife
The wife of an Auckland policeman accused of drug dealing is defending her husband, saying there's "no way" he's involved with the notorious Head Hunters gang. In an exclusive interview, Diane Pakau, 33, said she knew her husband, Peter Pakau, "inside out", and the allegations against him were just that. "I know it's not the truth. There's ...
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Warning on killer coming back to NZ
A murderer whom authorities warn could kill again will be deported from Australia to New Zealand - but unless laws change here he is unlikely to be monitored. The spotlight is on public access to an individual's criminal history after the murder of Christchurch girl Jade Bayliss. The 13-year-old was strangled by her mother's former boyfriend, but the family did not know he ...
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Family counts blessings after superbug scare
Ad Feedback One of the most common bacterial triggers is group A streptococcus which lives in the nose, throat and on skin of healthy people but can develop into a strep-throat infection, rheumatic fever or necrotising fasciitis. "Sometimes it's from splits in the skin from athlete's foot or whatever, or something minor, a splinter or something too small to see ...
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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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