Continuing in our popular and ever expanding series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the immigrant experience of New Zealand, taken from locations around the net. Today’s story was sent in to the blog by Mat, a UK qualified Gasfitter and Plumber who also taught at Unitec for a period. This is his story:…
A large 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the top of the South Island and lower North Island at 7.19pm today. The epicentre was 60 km deep and felt strongly in Marlborough and Wellington. A TVNZ report told of how highrise windows were shattered in the capital and apartments being evacuated, police said. “there has been damage…
Now that the rugby world cup is safely out of the way we’re starting to more coverage of serious crimes against tourists in New Zealand again. A reader has sent us a link to another spate of violent robberies in the small Northland town of Kerikeri. In the first incident a 39-year-old Swedish man was clubbed over the head by…
Hat tip to @pauljacobs4real on Twitter who spotted the same actor playing Dad in the supermarket adverts for Countdown NZ and Woolworths Australia. This is a screen shot from “Meet the Colemans” video from Countdown NZ. Here the actor is playing the part of Rob, he’s married to Nikki and they have children called Jess, Wills…
A Watercare press release has been quick to state that the company is to be prosecuted alongside Canadian Pacific in relation the the Onenhunga blast, in which Canadian born engineer and mother of two Philomen Gulland was tragically killed, six other people were injured in the blast. Watercare and Canadian Pacific to be prosecuted following…
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