Despite all the talk about keeping valuable, skilled miners in New Zealand following the explosion and subsequent closure of the Pike River Colliery, a number of immigrants working at the pit have been told they have to leave New Zealand in a few weeks if they don’t find alternative employment. They are already living in…
Two North Otago men accused of kidnapping a man last week are facing seven charges including kidnapping and assault of a male at Moeraki last Friday, unlawfully entering and remaining in his house and another house at Moeraki, threatening a second man and assaulting him twice. The charges stemmed from an incident where the men…
Months after the completion of the review of adventure tourism in New Zealand, regulations have finally been drawn up. The new regs, made under the Health and Safety in Employment Act, don’t take effect until October 2011 – three and a half years after the drowning death of British tourist Emily Jordan sparked a review…
Another cautionary tale about rip off prices during the 2011 Rugby World Cup has emerged. Ceana Priest, writing for the Waikato Times said that Waikato motels have been warned not to price gouge ahead of the RWC: Waikato Motel Association president Mike Ward said hiking up room rates during peak demand was a “bloody rip-off”…
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…
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