(Scroll down for update) New Zealand’s reputation as a safe tourism destination took another blow today with a Northern Advocate report about several tourists being injured on commercially operated “fast boat” rides in the Bay of Islands. The paper says that all the tourists were injured in the Excitor III, a 300 horsepower boat in…
More details are emerging of an attack on a middle aged Indian gentleman and a female in St Luke’s shopping mall early last month. The assailants are alleged to be two female pupils from Mount Albert Grammar School, aged 13 and 14. Surveillance cameras caught the two thugs beating up the man and kicking him…
Mount Ruapehu, one of New Zealand’s active volcanoes (scroll down for eruption video) has been at alert level one for some time now. Today scientists announced that the crater lake is continuing to heat up and this has been accompanied by previously unseen seismic activity and other changes in water chemistry and gas output. A…
Lost among the hype of New Zealand’s recently released 2010 crime figures were some shocking data about child violence. The stats make for grim reading as they come at a time when schoolyard bullying and violent assaults are frequently in the New Zealand news. Police crime statistics showed the number of children under 9 apprehended…
The level and value of fraud continues to increase significantly in New Zealand with $100 million dollars worth of it in the last six months, according to a press release by KPMG. The majority of it – $65 million dollars – was money stolen from investors. As before, managers remain the greatest risk to a…
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