Skiers Stuck On Mount Lyford

The traditional snowing-in season started early today in New Zealand with the announcement that 250 skiers are stranded on Mount Lyford overnight. “More than 250 skiers are stranded at Canterbury’s Mt Lyford skifield tonight. Winds picked up at the field, 60 kilometres south-west of Kaikoura, this afternoon, blowing snow onto the access road. Skifield owner…

Paradise Lost, Crisis In Small Town New Zealand.

Yesterday we blogged about the impending TVNZ Close Up TV special on New Zealand’s toughest towns, today one of the towns was revealed as Kawerau. From the Close Up website: “Sex for drugs. Organised fights. Suicide. Issues that no town wants to deal with, especially when kids as young as 14 are involved. Kawerau was…

New Zealand’s Toughest Town – Updated

This week on Television New Zealand’s Close Up: “Reporter Jehan Casinader investigates what life is like in one of our toughest towns. Sex for drugs and organised fights – and we’re talking about teenagers. What can be done to help?.” The show hasn’t even aired yet and no one know what the town is, but…

Only The All Blacks Can Wear Black With Pride?

Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, has decried England as a “bunch of wanabees” after they announced they were to wear black shirts and shorts for the RWC in New Zealand. But in a ungarded moment he went on to carelessly snub other New Zealand national sporting teams by saying “There’s only one team…