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Police are appealing for witnesses after a 14-year-old was assaulted in Bell Block on Monday. A 14-year-old Taranaki boy is in a stable condition in hospital after being hit over the head with a weapon for his backpack. Taranaki detective Daniel Coomey said the teenager had been in the Mangati Rd car park, near Bell Block Beach, around 5.20pm on Monday when a vehicle approached him. The passenger of the car got out and tried to get his backpack off him. “They hit him over the head with a ...

Glenn Jeffrey/Stuff Liam Bishop behind the wheel of Paul Farquhar’s Kenworth mini truck replica at the Taranaki Truck Show at Hickford Park in Bell Block. It was a case of little and large at the Taranaki Truck Show. Liam Bishop was driving this Kenworth mini truck replica and taking passengers around some of the 128 full-sized versions on display at Hickford Park, Bell Block, on Sunday. Paul Ringo Wilson, one of the organisers, estimated well over 5000 people visited the show, which was ra...

Holdom said the Taranaki Mayoral Forum, comprised of himself, Stratford mayor Neil Volzke, South Taranaki mayor Phil Nixon and Taranaki Regional Council chair David McLeod had written to Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency calling for actionand submitted on its regional transport plan, which he described as "pretty pathetic". After New Plymouths 10-year plan is finalised later this year he believes the mayors will join him to “beat a path to Waka Kotahi’s head office and then the Bee...

The spokesman said the target to restore power is four hours, so the back-up system had worked. In its draft long-term plan, the council has budgeted for an overflow storage tank that would prevent similar future incidents. The council did not alert news media of the spill, and neither did it post about it on Facebook. However, NPDC said it had followed standard procedure and notified key partners: iwi, the Taranaki District Health Board, and recreational users. Warning signs were also erec...

Taranaki Cricket Association operations manager Travis Stewart said the damage had affected 25 metres of turf. “Its frustrating. Its not cheap to lay cricket wickets. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff A car has done burnouts ripping up the artificial cricket pitch. “Its needless, and I cant see it being a lot of fun driving over a field and skidding on cricket wickets.” Two junior games will have to be played elsewhere, and a senior game this weekend may have to be moved. Although the pitch will ha...

The role saw him supervising installations throughout New Zealand as well as Australia, Asia and the Pacific. “It was shock to be laid off, but I quickly saw there was no reason I couldn’t start up on my own and work together with Mercer in the future,” he said. He now worked alongside the Christchurch-based company, now HMH Automation, in a joint venture as its North Island installation and service agent. SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff Schoemaker, with supervisor Mike Payne, bought equipment fro...

“He [Massey-Hunter] is still out with his family, doing everything, but we have got nothing.” ANDY JACKSON/Stuff Paul Stills says the family believes the nine-month home detention sentence imposed on the drugged driver who caused a crash that killed his brother Craig needs to be appealed. "Someone higher up needs to do something about it. And to the justice system in New Zealand. Theres something needs to be done. Quickly. “Theres a lot of other people, a lot of other offenders, going ...

The former 2600sqm Mercer site is barely 200m from where Superior Stainless previously operated. “The drawcard of moving was having double the floor space, and triple the yard space that we had at our old site,” Drinkwater said. There was also the advantage of acquiring three 5 tonne gantry cranes, and one 10t gantry crane, when the former Superior Stainless site had only one 5t gantry crane, he said. Since moving in mid-January, the floor space has been split into a heavy fabrication s...

Handley said the behaviour was like disobeying the rules on Covid-19 – “some refuse to play their part". Some residents recycling was so bad it was not even sorted, he said. “It goes straight into the landfill.” Handley said the zero waste goal was sensible in the long term but required proper recycling and management to be in place otherwise it becomes costly to all. A random survey of recycling bins during December and January found recycling contamination was increasing. While ...

More than 100 big rigs were expected to go on display in Bell Block at the biennial Taranaki Truck Show on Saturday, some travelling from as far Christchurch. Co-organiser Paul Wilson said the family day, which usually drew a crowd of more than 1000, would now go ahead on Easter Sunday. SIMON OCONNOR/Stuff The Pātea RSA has cancelled its centenary event. Pictured is committee member Jacq Dwyer, president Tom Matiaha and secretary Joan MacBeth. Planned for Sunday the event included a flyover...