Cancer Patients Sent To Australia

Waiting times for radiation therapy in Auckland have become so long that some patients are being sent to Australia for treatment. Readers who know something of the recent history of the NZ health service will know that there has been a dire shortage of radiologists in NZ for quite some time. Source: NZ Herald, Tues…

Killing in Dairy No Surprise to Police

Source: The Indian News Jan 27, 2008 Police say violent aggravated robberies occur so frequently in Auckland that they are not surprised someone has been killed. A 22-year-old man was stabbed to death yesterday in an apparent robbery of his parents’ South Auckland dairy. The officer in charge of the Counties-Manukau crime squad – the…