Yesterday we blogged about home buyers being advised to have drug testing carried out on their properties prior to purchase: to detect houses that have been contaminated by manufacture of the drug P. Today the Manawatu Standard has used the Official Information Act to obtain Horizons Regional Council‘s database of Hazardous Activities and Industries List…
As part of our Migrant Tales series we have a section dedicated to tales from expats returning home after living in New Zealand. A surprisingly high number of immigrants from western countries move on from New Zealand after a few years and it isn’t as easy pulling up sticks and going home as you’d think…
Along with a structural survey and a weathertightness check if you’re buying a home in New Zealand the latest advice is to have it checked-out for traces of P too. Methamphetamine (P) “has New Zealand in it’s grip.” A former Hamilton detective has accused the Government of a “head in the sand mentality” when it…
As if by proof that no corner of New Zealand is untouched by violent crime, the Armed Offenders Squad was called out to Great Barrier Island after a man was attacked and a woman went missing. According to various reports the man was seriously assaulted with a weapon yesterday and its feared that the 19…
Welcome to the next installment in our series of what Kiwis say about NZ – first hand accounts of life in New Zealand from the people who actually live there. The highly regarded state Auckland Grammar School recently announced its decision to abandon the NCEA examination system in preference for the Cambridge Examination System. It will…
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