Today’s Dom Post had published a story saying that Reverse Bungy NZ in central Wellington has been closed due to safety concerns. Apparently the capital city’s tourist attraction has something of a “chequered safety history” over the last 14 months. The Dom Post states that the Department of Labour had been investigating the mechanical failure of…
Today’s Stuff is carrying a story about an Australian tourist who was flown to hospital after being cut by a boat propeller in Ruakaka Bay, Marlborough Sounds shortly before midday. The woman, who is said to be 49 year old Catherine Carlyle from Adelaide, came into contact with the propeller as she jumped off the…
In May we wrote about three French tourists, Antonin Schopfer, 27, Guillaume Rey, 26, and Sebastien Vautier, 29 who were beaten and robbed as they camped in Mangamuka, Northland. (See blogs Three French tourists beaten up in Northland Campervan Robbery, French tourists back in Northland to Help Catch Attackers and “Tourists Beaters up Un-Maori“) The…
A number of times we’ve blogged about the death of corrections officer Jason Palmer, who died in May 2010 after he was punched by an inmate at Springhill prison in the Waikato, New Zealand. The prisoner, Latu Kepa, was alleged to have been a member of the Killer Beez gang. Kepa later pleaded guilty to…
Today’s editorial in NZResources.com, written by Ross Louthean, has expressed astonishment at the police being in charge at Pike River Coal and “making it known what could and could not happen.” In a report headed “Mine rescue must not remain with Mr Plod” Louthean said that, in the view of his Australian mining colleagues, this…
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