the site of the attack in Whakatane Two reminders this festive season that poverty in New Zealand continues to make it a very unsafe tourism destination. A young German couple, sleeping in their tent in the small town of Whakatane (renowned for its gang activity) were beaten severely and robbed in the early hours of Boxing Day.…
Well it’s been a glorious start to New Zealand’s first open season for hunters of Freedom Campers. Last February the president of the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association, Dick Waters issued a second call for freedom campers to be “shot” if they use vans that don’t have their own toilet facilities. Mr Waters, was…
New Zealand’s ‘100% pure’ mantle has cracked again with the publication of a report (allegedly ‘buried since June’) that one in five people in New Zealand has unsafe or unregistered drinking water that has not been classified. The report, which is bound to promote further ‘NZ is third world‘ criticism, was released by the Ministry…
Those were the words of Swiss tourist Marianne Buttet, quoted in the Northern Advocate after her family’s camping van was stolen from a car park in Whangarei. According to the report, written by Andre Heuber, when Mrs Buttet went to report the theft at the local police station another group of visitors came in and…
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