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Rural community cut off as emergency services respond to 87 weather-related callouts.

Half the stock for the limited edition of Monopoly has sold within a week of release, luring locals, collectors and even scammers.

The man in charge of the investigation Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Sheridan said he was unable to provide further information on the incident, but enquiries were ongoing. Campers at the domain said they were interviewed by officers who said they were looking for a “6 foot man in a black hoodie”. The campers, who did not want to be named, said they also saw police dogs roaming through the trees. A post on the community Facebook page Ashhurst Chat stated a girl had not returned from “her afternoon run at the domain”. It also stated she was “found safe tied to a tree”.

The day was also filled with music – gramophones and radio were part of most people’s everyday furniture now. Hit songs of 1927 would still be sung and played, 90-plus years in the future, from the up-tempo cuteness of Ain’t She Sweet and Me And My Shadow to the plaintive strains of My Blue Heaven, Someone to Watch Over Me and Stardust. Berryman’s Direct Importers were advertising the Williams Playola, a mechanical piano that even non-musicians could have fun with. “The gradation of tone from the faintest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo is a revelation. The touch is pe...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone at Linton Camp School on February 12 and Scoob at Longburn School on February 19. WALL-E plays at Monrad Park in Highbury on February 28. Activities start at 2pm, before the movie gets under way at 4.30pm. Patrons are asked to bring a picnic dinner, rug and low chairs. The final movie of the year is Sonic, at Awapuni Park on March 13. Council community development manager Joann Ransom said the community movie nights were popular last year and she hoped this year would be the same. “There was such a great atmosphere at each event last year, a...