Following on from our post Tourists Continue To Be Targets For Criminals In New Zealand on 2 December, we’re appalled to hear the news that more tourists have been targetted by New Zealand’s bogan criminals. New Zealand has one of the OECD’s most rapidly widening gaps between rich and poor, unfortuantely crime against tourists is just one manifestation…
Today’s Stuff is carrying a story about an Australian tourist who was flown to hospital after being cut by a boat propeller in Ruakaka Bay, Marlborough Sounds shortly before midday. The woman, who is said to be 49 year old Catherine Carlyle from Adelaide, came into contact with the propeller as she jumped off the…
(scroll to bottom of page for update) Despite the two recent deaths and the call for the wearing of helmets to be made compulsory (see our blog yesterday) the manager of the Mount Hutt skiifield has said there will be no changes to the off piste policy on Mount Hutt. Skiiers are basically out there…
An Australian tourist, 38-year-old John Parisis, from New South Wales, has fallen and died whilst on a guided tour with Franz Josef Glacier Guides in South Island, New Zealand. Mr Parisis’s cousin, Tina Vasilakis, said yesterday Mr Parisis had been in “good health” and was “excited to start his new life overseas” (Switzerland). “He walked…
7 May An Australian tourist from Sydney has been injured whilst performing a bungy jump this afternoon above the Waiau River: From a NZPA report “An Australian tourist is in a stable condition in Christchurch Hospital after slipping from a bungy cord into a river near Hanmer Springs today. The woman, who had been holidaying…
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