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If Property Brokers United and Wanganui Vet Services Marist settle their rivalry for 2024, it will have to be in the Coastal Challenge Cup playoffs, as the...

Fixing road damage from logging is eating into the Whanganui District Council’s budget and forestry rates could be revisited as a result. Downer operations...

Shaun Heflin and Brendon Walker had to get to a job site at 7 a.m. each day about 10 miles from where they live. Neither of them had access to their own vehicle. Despite the distance, the two militar...

On Thursday, we learned that the Nonprofit Development Corporation is working with veterans in the Butler VA Health Care System’s compensated work therapy program. The program pays the veterans while ...

EAST BUTLER — The Nonprofit Development Corporation is teaching military veterans how to put their hard charging attitudes to work building homes. Working with veterans in the Butler VA Health Care Sy...

Fearsome competition in today's dual-cab market has transformed what used to be one of the most fundamentally compromised product offerings in Australia, into a range of machines that are well-rounded and significantly less agricultural.

An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleague's work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake.

Hamish McNeilly/Stuff Michael Cartwright leaves the Dunedin District Court after being sentenced for a charge laid under the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Act. An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleagues work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake. Jesse Samuel, of Alexandra, was found slumped in a small shower unit at his familys holiday home in Haast on October 10, 2018. Paramedics tr...

Mothers agony at gasfitters fatal shower mistake: You killed my son 26 Jan, 2021 09:32 PM 5 minutes to read The last photo of Jesse Samuel, a selfie taken while out white-baiting the night before he died. Photo / Supplied The mother of a boy who died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a gasfitter signed off a hot water unit that shouldnt have been installed says the tragedy wasnt an accident and was preventable. Justine Walker says losing her 12-year-old oldest son has left her permanently pa...

SUPPLIED/Supplied Cartwright, a certified gas-fitter, was responsible for certifying Hale’s work. Brendon Walker, Jesse’s uncle, purchased the Bosch gas hot water unit in September 2016, and was told by the retailer that it was​ suitable for the small bathroom unit. The bathroom was initially used at Walker’s home in Alexandra while his property was being renovated. A shower, basin, toilet and sliding window were later added. The gas water heater was described as an open flued inst...