Te Anau’s tourism reputation is in danger after a gang of drunken youths assaulted visitors to the town recently. The story was picked up by the Southland Times who reported that Constable Glen Matheson, of Te Anau, said a group of seven visitors was attacked at the skate park on the outskirts of the central…
In May we wrote about three French tourists, Antonin Schopfer, 27, Guillaume Rey, 26, and Sebastien Vautier, 29 who were beaten and robbed as they camped in Mangamuka, Northland. (See blogs Three French tourists beaten up in Northland Campervan Robbery, French tourists back in Northland to Help Catch Attackers and “Tourists Beaters up Un-Maori“) The…
A couple honeymooning in Auckland didn’t have the same Gold Medal rapid response that an American rowing team member got just three days later, when they too were burgled hours before leaving New Zealand. British newlyweds Simon and Sabine Greenslade were married in August in Germany and had been honeymooning in New Zealand. At the…
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 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…
E2NZ.org 
You must be logged in to post a comment.