From the Taranaki Daily News by Kirsty Johnston: “Toxic chemicals have been found at a children’s playground in Marfell, the site of a New Plymouth’s former city dump. The chemicals were tetrachlorobenzene and trichlorophenol, both used in the manufacture of herbicides, Taranaki Regional Council director of environment quality Gary Bedford said yesterday. Workers laying a…
The Economist’s survey of liveable cities in the world has just been published naming cities in Europe, Canada and Australia as the best places to live. The top ten comprised 4 European cities, 3 Canadian and 3 Australian. High-scoring cities tend to be mid-sized and located in developed countries with a low population density. This…
New Zealand’s Pediatric Society has told a parliamentary committee that the country has the world’s worst rates of child death and injury from preventable causes in the developed world, a damming indictment of the state of the nation’s health service, coming hot on the heels of admissions that maternity services were stretched to breaking point.…
You’ve got to hand it to Genesis, they’ve got a way with words. 50 customers of the power company ran out of power at the weekend when a computer glitch prevented them topping up their pre-pay accounts. Tania Tai-Albert lost her power at 8am on Sunday after being unable to top her credit and wasn’t…
From The Times of India 25 Feb 2009 “Indian students studying in New Zealand’s southernmost city Invercargill have been targets of racial abuse and called terrorists by local people, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Four of those targeted are Sikhs who wear turbans, which they said made some ignorant people confuse them with Arabs or…
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