The Australian Daily Telegraph (see below) is reporting that many sporting tour groups from Britain and Australia are thinking about basing themselves in Sydney for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The decision to stay in Sydney has been brought about by reports of NZ accommodation providers’ extortionate price gouging. See our article “Price Gouging and…
New Plymouth is still having severe problems with its street thugs. Graeme Waswo, a Taranaki limousine company owner, was so badly beaten-up by punks high on ‘P’ after the All Blacks -v. Ireland test on Saturday night that he is not going to refuse to let his vehicles enter the towns CBD at night during…
“Stop embarrassing us” The Labour party has been swift to issue a press release condemning yesterday’s early morning attack on a party of French tourists camping in a lay-by near Mangamuka, Northland (for background see our earlier post today) Michael Laws, mayor of Wanganui also issued a rebuke, calling Maori communities in the far north…
From price gouging in hotels to removing beggars from the streets and turfing people out of hostels and renting out their rooms – everyone is gearing up get a nice fat slice of the RWC 2011 cake. The stories have been around for a while now but they’re starting to pick up a bit: Various…
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…
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