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A search warrant from Internet Crimes Against Children resulted in an arrest on Friday.Hanna Fisher, a Pryor Creek detective, received a Cybertip that a suspec
123rf Some cars damaged in car crashes can be repaired, reregistered and resold, but motor dealers must tell buyers the true history of what they are buying. A legal challenge to the duty of used car dealers to tell potential buyers when a car is a former insurance write-off has been abandoned. In October, Taieri Motor Court in Dunedin was ordered to pay a buyer $5000 by the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal after failing to tell buyer Mark Thorn that a car it sold him had previously been written off for insurance purposes, and then repaired and re-registered. Tribunal adjudicator...
RICKY WILSON/stuff Bobby O'Connor is now looking forward to the New Year knowing he is no longer being pursued for a car loan. OPINION: Complaining effectively over a shoddy good or service calls for both hard and soft skills. It can also require the wisdom to accept partial victory, knowing the alternative is to waste years on embittered, unproductive pursuit of revenge. During the past year, I’ve met many complainers, indicating some of the factors which lead some to succeed, and others fail. In the months before Christmas, I covered the story of Auckland pensioner Bobby O’Connor, a ...