In today’s budget New Zealand’s National Party Government announced it intends to scrap tax cuts promised at the last election and will suspend $2 billion in annual contributions to the NZ Superannuation Fund for the next 10 years. The promises were made despite National knowing back in Feb 2008 that the operating balance was shrinking…
In today’s budget New Zealand’s National Party Government announced it intends to scrap tax cuts promised at the last election and will suspend $2 billion in annual contributions to the NZ Superannuation Fund for the next 10 years. The promises were made despite National knowing back in Feb 2008 that the operating balance was shrinking…
American Twins Adam and Alex Rahmlow, 21 have lost most of their possessions to a down and out hitchhiker they picked up in the Christchurch suburb of Amberley. The Rahmlows had befriended the man, who said he was from Auckland, and had supported him over athree day period whilst they stayed at a campsite.The hitchhiker,…
From Wikipedia.com “On the morning of 20 June 1994, five members of the Bain family were shot dead. The dead were Robin Bain (58), his wife Margaret (50), their daughters Arawa (19), Laniet (18) and son Stephen (14). David called 111 at 7:09 am, seeming very distressed. He had completed his paper round; what else…
Many think that there is only one, perhaps two types of Kiwi accent. This is a fallacy, there are many regional variation in both accents and dialects. As the country becomes more influenced by migration and international speech patterns further variations are bound to occur: For samples of recordings see Dialects and Accents of New…
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