Another botch-up by a New Zealand pharmacist has left a woman sick, depressed and fatigued after she was given the wrong medication. In a recently released report the Health and Disability Commissioner found that the (unnamed) pharmacist failed in his care for the woman. In June 2014, the woman went to her doctor for a…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s story was sent in by a British man who emigrated to Northland as a ‘Brit Cop’ under the NZ First agreement. Despite having 10 years experience of UK policing he was treated as a probationer by…
An in-depth reading of the TAIC report into the Carterton Hot Air Ballooning tragedy, in which 11 people died has shown that the CAA had received a complaint (ARC or Aviation-related concern) about the capability of deceased pilot Lance Hopping. Furthermore, the incident was dismissed as possibly being not genuine without any record of the…
Update: The British Broadcasting Corporation and the Times UK has also reported on this story, read the reports here New Zealand hot air balloon crash pilot ‘used cannabis’ (BBC) and Pilot in New Zealand air balloon disaster had smoked cannabis (Times) A Transport Investigators’ report has revealed that the pilot in the Carterton Ballooning tragedy had smoked cannabis shortly before the…
Last month an inquest was held in Britain into the death of young rugby player Tom Sewell. Five years ago Tom Sewell started his first day of a working holiday in New Zeaalnd and was killed whilst riding a quad bike on a farm in Katikati, on the North Island. It’s sad that it has…
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