The United States rowing team has just had an unpleasant brush with New Zealand’s spiralling crime problem. On Saturday a member of the team had a number of personal items stolen after the World Rowing Championships at *Lake Karapiro. A Police press released managed to turn what could’ve been a PR clunker into a ‘gold…
The Press is reporting that there was a sharp rise in “burglaries” following the quakes that hit Canterbury and Christchurch. Reports of looting (“police staff in the city centre have clamped down on any reports of looting“) have been largely suppressed since the quakes started but it has just been confirmed that there’s been a…
This account was recently added to our highly popular Migrant Tales series, we’re putting it on the daily blog because it covers so many issues that exasperate migrants in New Zealand at present, it also demonstrates why so many are leaving. This tale was originally published on a British expats emigration forum. The author is…
Yesterday a middle aged man was shot in the back as he filled-up at a service station in Wairoa, what makes the crime particularly disturbing is that it happened during a busy time of day and other people could’ve been hurt or killed in the attack. A RadioNZ report said it was only a matter…
The Nelson Mail is running another story about violence in the South Island town, this time a Chilean tourist has fallen foul of three members of Nelson’s community of drunken thugs. The young man was attacked on the Church Steps, below the Nelson Cathedral – a popular tourist attraction. This is is thought to be…
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