Police and Department of Conservation officials met today with families of men killed in the Pike River Mine to deliver the shattering news that recovery work at the mine is to be abandoned. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families and friends of the dead men, who must now learn to grieve for…
Poor Steve and Sarah Haskey, they’re one of many, many touring couples to have been robbed in NZ this summer. The honeymooing couple from Wrexham, North Wales were in New Zealand on the “holiday of a lifetime” when their video camera, memory cards and passports were stolen from their rental car as they stopped briefly…
Continuing in our popular series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Our latest tale is taken from the forum at Expatexposed.com, the only uncensored NZ immigration forum on the net, where people are free to talk about NZ as they really…
Another foreign tourist has died in a tourism activity in New Zealand. This latest fatality was on 6 January during a guided dive in Port Gore at the top of the South Island, part of the Marlborough Sounds which also was the scene of the dolphin boat incident in December when an Australian tourist’s legs…
Well it’s been a glorious start to New Zealand’s first open season for hunters of Freedom Campers. Last February the president of the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association, Dick Waters issued a second call for freedom campers to be “shot” if they use vans that don’t have their own toilet facilities. Mr Waters, was…
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