$380 A Week Gets You What?

$380 a week for rent doesn’t get you much. Low quality housing is responsible for the poor health of three quarters of a million people in New Zealand.

Palmerston North ‘NOT A Safe City’

It’s good to see the residents of Palmerston North being given the chance to have their say about the spin being put out that the City is ‘safe’ (see other posts about Palmy’s issues here: Link) and that crime, especially violent crime, and gangs aren’t a problem: By MARIKA HILL – Manawatu Standard: “The victim…

Theo Kriel

Libby on the beach The name of the boy that killed British school girl Libby Templeman has now been released. He is Hermanus Theodorus Kriel, known as Theo Kriel. For some unknown reason his image has been suppressed until sentencing next month. Just how this is going to work in practice is unclear because he…

Guilty Of Murder – Libby Templeman’s Killer Convicted

The 16 year old youth who killed British school girl Liberty Rose Templeman was today found guilty of her murder by a 11-1 majority verdict, he was also found guilty of indecent assault. The boy, who is thought to come from another southern hemisphere country, possibly South Africa, has been granted name suppression until overseas…

Freedom Campers "Should Be Shot"

The president of the New Zealand Motor Caravan Association, Dick Waters, may have wounded himself in his own foot after issuing another call yesterday for freedom campers to be “shot” if they use vans that don’t have their own toilet facilities. Mr Waters, is reported as having said yesterday that “Messy freedom campers who trundle…