There has been another adventure tourism accident in New Zealand. Six people were injured late yesterday afternoon when a Shotover jet boat hit a rock near Arthurs Pt on the Shotover river, Queenstown. The river was said to be flowing at a low rate of 20 cubic metres per second, a factor that Maritime New Zealand will take into effect when conducting…
Updated 6 Nov 2015 Waitangi man Daniel Rama Tito, age 22, was sentenced to a mere 6 months home detention for the attack on Scott and Jacob. The judge who handed down the ‘sentence’ told the court Tito’s “community, and his country, relied on tourism. His actions risked changing Paihia’s image from a clean, green…
New Zealand’s reputation as a safe place took another nose dive today. A rampaging axe man has attacked householders in Timberlea, Upper Hut, killing one woman and seriously injuring two males ages 20 and 24 years. Here’s what the NZ Herald had to say: A woman has told of a narrow escape after a man armed…
The lawless north has earned another credit to its name this afternoon. The small town of Whangarei was placed under lockdown by the armed offenders squad after police received multiple reports of gunfire directed at a property in Willow Place near Silverstream Road. The town’s hospital and a number of schools also went into lockdown. Northern…
Albany School on Auckland’s North Shore is in lockdown this morning after 3 people were stabbed. RadioLive reported a man and a woman were seriously injured and another woman had died. Another report from Newstalk ZB said a woman had been killed and two younger people injured. The deceased woman was later named as Brent…
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