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Rotorua's Marion St George celebrates milestone birthday of 100 years old 15 Jan, 2021 10:00 PM 3 minutes to read Rotorua's Marion St George recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Photo / Andrew Warner Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost It's not every day a total stranger gives you a $100 grocery voucher but it happened to Marion St George when she was out shopping. The kind gesture happened in Pak'nSave in Rotorua days before her 100th birthday and left her flabbergasted. Marion says a man with a uniform of some sort on came up to her and said...

Arise, Sir Handbrake © Provided by Newsroom Winston Peters could soon be a knight, if the Government has rushed to honour him and overlooked lingering controversies In just over a week we will learn if the Government has decided to issue Winston Peters with the knighthood and status his name and double-breasted suit have long awaited. Sir Winston has a natural ring to it but would it be a move too fast and would it be justified by his political life and times? The 75-year-old New Zealand First leader is in parliamentary retirement, having lost three electorate seats over his 45-year politic...

But while Mallard appeared nervous, his tone contrite, it was very much an act of self-interest; a tactical performance designed to stop the avalanche of bad publicity surrounding Mallard from spoiling the end to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s stellar year. As speaker, Mallard has more powers than most members of parliament to be able to “ask” to front up to a parliamentary committee in order to put his apology on record. He needed to muster all the resources at his disposal to prove to Ardern that he could perform a mea culpa like other Labour ministers who have made mistakes before h...