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Automatic alarms alerted City Care to the fault and an on-call technician attended the pump station, where he drew incorrect conclusions on the issue. The man previously worked for City Care but, after recommencing employment in 2018, was in need of refresher training, it was heard in court. SIMON OCONNOR/STUFF/Stuff The spill occurred after the power supply to the NPDC’s sewage pumping station alongside the stream failed. City Care recognised the man’s need for training and had put the ...

Four hundred seats were put out at the North Point Baptist Church at Bell Block, but it was standing room only as mourners gathered to pay their respects.

“We would have saved nearly $6000 using cloth nappies.” “I’m not about the profits. I’m not making any money, its all going back into the business.” Single-use nappies take anywhere from 150 to 500 years to breakdown in landfill, she said. Terrill invested $15,000 starting the business and has extended the brand to include teething rings, mitts, bibs and necklaces, after her two-year-old daughter Mia bit through her nail when teething. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff Terrill often sells her ...

It's understood a section of scrub 100x30m in size is alight.

It's understood a section of scrub 100x30m in size is alight.

New Plymouth district councillor and journalist Gordon Brown was conducting an interview at a business on Connett Rd, Bell Block, about 10.20am when the gale force winds tore the roof off a nearby building. “There was this almighty noise, so I just turned around and the roof was being peeled back like a can of sardines,” Brown said. SIMON OCONNOR/STUFF “It was pretty spectacular. I have never seen anything like it.” Senior station officer Jason Crowe, of New Plymouth fire brigade, s...

Source: New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is advising that work to improve safety on State Highway 3 between Waitara and Bell Block will get underway next Tuesday (9 February). The section of highway between Bayley Street and Raleigh Street at Waitara will be resealed, and a new wide centreline will be marked to help keep traffic apart, reducing the risk of head-on crashes. The southbound passing lane at Brixton Hill will also be removed, and new line markings and rum...

Andy Jackson/Stuff Kararaina Makere Te Rauna, 33, appeared in the New Plymouth District Court on eight charges of shoplifting and theft on Wednesday. (File photo) Though confident a recidivist thief would continue to steal, a community magistrate has nonetheless challenged the woman to prove them wrong after convicting her for a brazen three-day shoplifting spree in Taranaki. In October last year, Kararaina Makere Te Rauna, 33, and an alleged co-offender drove around Taranaki under the influen...

“It’s unprecedented, with many low vacancy rates in the industrial market. “Covid had an effect for the first month after the lockdown when everyone seemed to be sitting on their hands, but as interest rates dropped businesses bounced back as people used their discretionary income to buy property.” Simon OConnor/Stuff Commercial property sales in Taranaki was buoyant, Colliers International real estate agent Benet Carroll said. Residential sales in Taranaki jumped 19.6 per cent in De...

Prestidge said the homes were quality builds priced between $800,000 to $1million, and 300sqm in size. “Among the new homes being built are several for retired farmers who have sold up and moved into town.” The boom is evidenced in the number of granted resource consents for new buildings and subdivisions in the smaller centres of Stratford and Hāwera last year. South Taranaki saw a 63 per cent increase in new housing consents, with 96 issued in 2020– up from 56 in 2019. The distric...