Immigrants Caught In Cold Poverty Trap

Our sympathies go out to Tenoch King and her husband, Mark Steadman. The couple emigrated to New Zealand three years ago, Mr Steadman is a relief secondary school teacher from Australia and his American wife is a graduate and is working part time. They bought an old, uninsulated 1914 villa (wooden)  in Port Chalmers* with…

Subway Rations Food

This story that the ‘land of plenty’, the nation whose economy depends so much on agriculture and growing sufficient food to be self sustaining, can’t even keep a fast food chain stocked up caught our attention this morning. This story was running in the Herald “A shortage of cucumber, lamb and turkey has hit Subway…

North Shore Homicide – Updated

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of a woman who died in North Shore, Auckland on Saturday. Police have confirmed that the woman suffered a violent death in a house that was involved in a fire,  they’ve started a homicide inquiry but have not released details about the cause of death. She has…

China Issues Warning About Crime In New Zealand – Updated

(scroll down for update) China has issued an advisory to its citizens about crime in Auckland, according to an article written by Lincoln Tan in today’s Herald. It is one of many foreign countries to have issued advisories and warnings about New Zealand, among them Great Britain, The Netherlands and the Philippines. In 2009 the…