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Attacks on kiwi prompts DOC warning to dog owners Kiwi. Photo: Bay Conservation.   Kiwi recently killed on the Coromandel Peninsula by dogs has prompted the Department of Conservation – DOC - to urge owners to take extreme care when in the birds habitat.   Three dead endangered Coromandel brown kiwi have been discovered at Tairua, Whenuakite and Matarangi in the last few months.   DOC biodiversity ranger Mailee Stanbury said at one stage five dogs were seen roaming the Whenuakite block.  ...

Police and NZTA plea “arrive alive these holidays” File Image/SunLive. “Arrive alive – if you’re drinking, don’t drive.” That’s the message from New Zealand Police and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency with Christmas just around the corner. “Tragically around 400 people continue to be killed or seriously injured on New Zealand roads every year in crashes where the driver was impaired,” says Waka Kotahi general manager safety, health and environment Greg Lazzaro. National roa...

and the council wants to give us 4 rubbish bins to wash out. Tia Posted on 24-12-2020 17:50 | By Slim Shady Yes I do thanks. If you look at BOPRC rainfall levels around the numerous stations the last month has shown levels between 200 and 300+% of normal levels. Where does it all go? I’ll tell you as you don’t know. Out to sea because the Council infrastructure is inadequate and has been for years. You’re in the world where mediocrity is acceptable because you don’t know any better. Ph...

Posted on 23-12-2020 08:29 | By Go Sports! Some wise words have been spoken, its time we Back Our Future - lets bring Mr Peters home #bringbackwinne. Really ! Posted on 22-12-2020 20:14 | By The Caveman I’m not going to be paid for a " I have no idea job" any more, so I need to get a REAL job now !! (As do 75% of the current council). wrong one Posted on 22-12-2020 18:09 | By terry hall wrong one resigned should have been Baldock, for commissioner the right hon Winston Peters, then we wi...

Police investigate “shocking” BOP attack File Image. Warning: Graphic image may upset some people A man holidaying at Rotoruas hot pools has been left with a broken bone and bruises on his face after an attack. The Wellingtonian, who did not want his name used, was with his friends who had come from across the country to bike in Rotorua over the weekend. He says six of them decided to go to the thermal pools to relax after a long day of biking on Saturday, but it was closed by 11pm and many...

Posted on 23-12-2020 17:57 | By MOUNT67 IfPosted on 20-12-2020 17:49 | By groutby ...’the man received serious injuries...’and has since been discharged’..?..how serious is serious?...what is the truth?...in response to your enquiring comment... if you had read my post before yours you will see that my son is the victim. He was in hospital for a great length of time and wanted to go home after various tests and CT scans. Here we go with conspiracy theories?! My son is actually lucky th...

Long ago. These words, from the first verse of the well-known carol, were written by the English poet Christina Rossetti in 1872 in response to a request from the magazine Scribners Monthly for a Christmas poem. It was published posthumously in Rossettis Poetic Works in 1904. The poem became a Christmas carol after it appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906. The text of this Christmas poem has been set to music many times; the most famous settings being composed by Gustav Holst and Harold Edw...

Posted on 20-12-2020 22:42 | By Roman Tomson In more than 40 years of working at many levels within industry I recall many occasions that staff were financially rewarded for increasing productivity. However, throughout my working life I have NEVER seen an increase in productivity that can be directly attributed to a wage rise. The only beneficiary of this wage rise will be the Government through a higher income tax take and increased income from GST - you know, a new tax which isn’t really a...

Summer Reads is back in Tauranga Supplied photo. Summer is here, and that means a long break from schoolwork. "Kids will happily be swapping school sandals for sandcastles, and mathematics for Minecraft; but thanks to Tauranga City Libraries, parents don’t need to worry about their children returning to school in February with a lower reading level than when they left," says a Tauranga City Council spokesperson. "Our free reading challenge Kia Kaha Te Pānui – Summer Reads underwent a mak...

Posted on 17-12-2020 13:40 | By morepork I can see both sides. I’ve been visiting the Village on and off since it opened in 1977. Both of you are right. The Village CAN be interesting, stimulating and pleasant, AND it can be boring and dull. Yadick, it is PEOPLE that bring vibrancy; exhibits by themselves can never do that. Watching open air Shakespeare on a Summer evening, sitting on the grass eating fast food during the Jazz festival, even having a beer in the old buildings (as Tania note...