An eighteen year old woman has been abducted and subjected to a gang rape in the small Taranaki township of Waitara (general view of the street above). Up to five men are thought to be involved the random attack, according to one report She was taken from outside a house on Cracroft Street and put into a dark-coloured,…
Thinking of visiting a beach whilst staying in New Zealand? take care in the the water, it’s not as safe as you think. A man was retrieving a crayfish pot from Riversdale in the Wairarapa this afternoon, when a passing stingray ripped a 15cm long gash in his leg which severe enough to require hospital treatment.…
A couple of days back we blogged about the disgusting increase in pollution levels in New Zealand’s bathing waters and of how some waters are being billed as ‘safe for swimming’ when they are so obviously polluted with storm or waste water. Now it seems that contamination in Waitara may be making those most hardy…
A Canadian tourist, Matt Brazeau, has had his thigh pierced clean through by a Stingray whilst standing in surf after falling out of his canoe near Waitara, near New Plymouth, sometime this week. He told the Taranaki Daily News “I was reaching for the kayak and felt this unbelievable pain through my leg. It was…
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