We’re appalled by the story about a drunken mob descending on a Palmerston North petrol service station last Saturday night. The Manawatu Standard wrote: “A mob of drunken youths stole hundreds of dollars worth of stock and left behind a trail of vomit and debris when they took their party to a Palmerston North service station.…
Discretion may not be some people’s forte, but one should expect people working in a professional capacity to be trained to muster up the appropriate behaviour, occasionally. We were disappointed to hear a gay man was publicly humiliated in front of a busy waiting room when a nurse announced he could be carrying the HIV virus. Liam Taylor had some root…
According to an entry made in his Facebook account Simon Maddison lost his appeal to have his daughter Emma returned from Denmark to New Zealand. ” Just wanted to keep you all informed on my struggle to bring Emma home. Unfortunately my Appeal was turned down. The Danish Supreme Court didn’t want to reopen my case,…
The first ever National Standards results for reading, writing and maths in primary schools have been released in New Zealand. It’s not a comprehensive list and 188 schools either haven’t submitted data or it was ‘incomplete’. 25 schools have refused to participate, prompting Education Minister, Hekia Parata, to issue a stern rebuke, saying “Schools are Crown entities,…
Continuing our series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from locations around the net. If you are considering emigrating to New Zealand to work or train in nursing you need to read this, you may be surprised to learn there is no nursing shortage in New Zealand and…
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