Mr Horne seems to have lost the plot. He starts with “[Ryan’s] position makes no sense”. But he doesn’t know my position, so cannot possibly know if it makes sense or not.
He pleads, “No more nonsense about Richard Feynmann”. While insulting Feynmann (and thinking people everywhere) by suggesting, “He never passed comment” is evidence of an opinion.
He advises “[Feynmann] did not write a paper”, when nobody said he did. Meanwhile, my “position” is irrelevant. And demanding that I explain it, a distraction.
I’d rather get back to addressing things that matter. Like the effectiveness of climate police and its effect on New Zealand citizens.
For example: New Zealand citizens generate less than 0.2 per cent of the world’s CO2.
Of that less than 0.2 per cent, when our entire ecosystem is considered, New Zealand “captures” more than 100 per cent. Our total carbon emissions are already “net-negative”.
At the same time, New Zealand is powerless to change the output of China and India against whom our emissions get lost in the statistical noise. But our politicians want us to do more.
Some argue that reducing emissions is doing the right thing, but is it? Is it right or sensible if it leaves us poorer but doesn’t measurably change anything, or protect us from others’ emissions?
Is there really nothing better we can do?
I have seen no climate policy coming from local or national government that achieves anything more than giving smug politicians an excuse to say, “look how good we are!”, while making life harder for the average Kiwi.
I have seen no climate policy that could possibly have a measurable impact on climate change or our preparedness for the prophesied climate emergency.
Perhaps when Mr Horne is over his weird obsession with trying to disprove a point I didn’t make, he can explain how raising petrol taxes for working-class New Zealanders is going to make a difference to the global climate.
Police are investigating a crash involving two dirt bike riders and a vehicle in east Auckland on July 15. File photo supplied
Two people riding the same dirt bike were injured when they crashed into a vehicle in east Auckland.
Counties Manukau East Police senior sergeant Anson Lin says he anticipates charges will be laid as the investigation into the incident in Pakuranga on July 15 continues.
“The incident occurred when a dirt bike crashed into a van that was turning into Kentigern Close, from the Pakuranga Highway, at around 12.40pm.
“We are aware this dirt bike had been riding through nearby intersections prior to this incident disregarding the road rules.
“At the point of the crash, the dirt bike has failed to stop for a red light.
“Both the rider and passenger sustained injuries, and neither were wearing a helmet.”
Lin says speculation by people around the circumstances of the incident is “not overly helpful in this case”.
“However, we can confirm the van driver stopped at the scene and waited for police to arrive.
“He spoke to our staff who attended and fortunately he did not sustain any injuries.”
The incident resulted in hundreds of comments being made on local community Facebook pages by people who debated who was to blame for the crash.
The Government plans to introduce changes intended to reduce youth and gang crime. Times file photo Wayne Martin
The Labour Government is implementing changes to the justice system to tackle youth and gang crime.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins revealed the new policy in Wellington with Police Minister Ginny Andersen on July 17.
It includes making it an aggravating factor for an adult to use young people to commit a crime, a new aggravated sentence for posting footage of crimes online, requiring young offenders to attend education programmes or community activities, and adding 78 more police prosecutors.
Hipkins says the Government is taking steps to crack down on an increase in brazen criminal offending, with a stronger multi-pronged approach that increases accountability, gives police more tools and beefs up programmes to break the cycle of crime.
“The first of these changes is a crackdown on people who commission or reward children and young people to offend.
“We’re told many ram-raids are done for notoriety on social media and the news or petty theft, but we know there’s also a planned or organised crime element to some of them.
“Using a child to commit a crime is cowardly, exploitative and destroys lives, so the consequences must be serious.
“The Government is creating a new aggravating factor that would apply when an adult, whether or not connected to an organised crime group, aids, encourages or incites a person under 18 to carry out an offence.”
Hipkins says posting offending behaviour online will become an aggravating factor in sentencing.
“It’s becoming increasingly common for offenders to video their criminal behaviour and post or livestream it to show off to their friends and followers.
“This ‘social media amendment’ we’re introducing will apply to adults and young people and provide the courts with an additional consideration when sentencing, and it sends a strong signal that this behaviour is unacceptable.”
He says the Government is introducing greater accountability back to people and communities impacted by crime.
“For offending by children and young people from the age of 10, the Family Court will be given the ability to require, not request, as it does now, offenders to undertake community activities, such as cleaning graffiti and picking up rubbish.
“The Family Court will also be able to require that an offender attend an educational, recreational or activity programme.”
Hipkins says victims will be entitled to attend care and protection family group conferences for the first time in relation to children over 10, which will force offenders to confront their victims.
Since new powers for police were introduced to combat gang activity it’s seen good results, most recently in Opotiki last month, with 26 vehicles searched, four guns seized and nine arrests, he says.
“Forty thousand charges have also been laid against gang members as part of police’s Operation Cobalt drive against organised crime, which was funded by this Government.
“But the gangs need to hear the message that they cannot act with impunity. The balance has shifted.”
Andersen says the Government is also backing the police to pursue criminal offending through the courts by boosting the prosecution service with an additional $26m to help clear the case backlog in district courts.
“This funding will allow police to add up to 78 full time equivalent staff to prepare their in-court work against those who’ve committed serious crimes.”
It was revealed earlier this year the number of Kiwis who reported being the victim of crime has risen 46 per cent since 2017.
Police data showed victimisations increased from 241,000 in 2017 to 350,000 last year.
Serious assaults resulting in injury rose from 9800 in 2017 to 23,000 last year, a 140 per cent increase.
Ram-raids have increased by 551 per cent since 2018, with 886 such incidents reported in 2022.
National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis spoke to a large audience at Pakuranga Park Village on July 7. Times photo Wayne Martin
National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis has delivered her party’s election pitch to several hundred residents at an east Auckland retirement complex.
Willis, who is also the party’s finance spokesperson, recently visited Pakuranga Park Village with Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown.
She praised Brown’s work in the electorate and told the audience he’s “extremely well respected in Wellington”.
“For such a young man he has one of the wisest heads in our caucus.
“He is a very good thinker about this country and its future and the policies we need.
“We need that right now, good thinking, because I think many of you will agree with me the country is in a bad way.”
Willis detailed New Zealand’s challenges and how National would address them should it be elected to Government at this year’s general election on October 14.
She said the cost of living crisis has “dragged on to its third year”, with high inflation meaning prices have been rising faster that people’s incomes.
“I worry about those homeowners who have got big mortgages. They had to take on a big mortgage to get into this elevated housing market.
“They took on a loan with an interest rate of two or three per cent.
“Now that interest rate is six or seven per cent and they have to spend hundreds more as a family just to pay their mortgage.”
Willis said businesses are struggling due to the recession.
New Zealand’s “really significant” current account deficit shows the country is spending more in the world than it’s earning and its net debt has grown from $5.6 billion in 2019 to $73b now.
Kiwis need to ask what they have to show for the large debt accumulated by Finance Minister Grant Robertson, she said.
“I think we’d have a bit more forgiveness for Mr Robertson and his friends if we could point to wonderful new motorways, reduced waiting times for surgery, and greater achievement in our schools.
“But we’re not seeing those things. Instead, what we’re seeing is potholes on roads, speed signs telling people to go slower, surging violent crime, lower achievement in schools, and people having to wait longer not only to get an operation but just to see a specialist.”
Nicola Willis, left, was hosted at Pakuranga Park Village by Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown, right. Times photo Wayne Martin
Willis said National’s plan is to get the Government’s books back in order and drive more value for the money it spends.
It’ll set targets for what it wants to achieve and deliver from spending and hold people accountable for delivering on those targets.
“The third thing is when we tighten up the ship, we can afford to give middle-income earners and everyday workers a bit of a tax reduction,” Willis said.
“We’ve put out a plan to do that so a typical family could be up to $2000 a year better off if they’ve got two average income earners in their family.
“A one-income earning family would be about $1000 better off.”
She said people who receive NZ Superannuation will benefit from National’s tax plan, as Super is tagged to the average after-tax wage.
“So when we increase average after tax wages quicker, your Superannuation payments lift more.”
She said National would make it easier to build things, make things, and grow things in New Zealand.
There’s too much “red tape” restricting businesses and people are finding it hard to deal with.
Willis said one of the things knocking business confidence is the “amount of crime in our communities”.
“We have to get tougher on law and order. National makes no apologies for saying under our Government there will be tougher consequences for crime.
“We will sentence people appropriately, we’ll go after the gangs, and we’ll also intervene earlier to stop young offenders careening down the path of crime.”
On education, she said if people looked inside school classrooms today, “we should have reason for concern”.
Many classrooms are empty, or half empty, because so many pupils are truant from school.
“Even when they are attending school, the rates of achievement in reading and writing and maths have dropped.
“Not just relative to other countries, but relative to how well New Zealand students used to perform historically.
“That’s a real worry because we have an obligation to be teaching each generation more than the last, not less.”
Willis said National will take things back to basics in education.
Every primary-aged pupil will be taught an hour of reading, writing, and maths each school day.
“It’s pretty simple. We will set out a very clear curriculum with what each student needs to learn each year at school.”
Oliver Hughson [with ball] finds a gap in the Pakuranga U21s match against Manukau on Saturday. Times photo Wayne Martin.As one week remains in the Auckland club rugby season, only two Pakuranga United Rugby Club (PURC) teams remain, having a chance to walk away with some silverware.
The unbeaten PURC U21s headline the day for the east Auckland club as their gritty win over Manukau at the weekend has booked them a ticket to the final.
They will face a strong Grammar TEC side with the hope of finally lifting the Arthur Bayliss Cup after falling short in last year’s final.
Meanwhile, the PURC premier reserve men will have a final of their own as they compete for the Peter Fatialofa Trophy (5th place play-off) this weekend.
The premier reserves will play Puketapapa, who they beat 29-22 earlier in the season.
It wasn’t exactly a positive end to the season for the PURC premier men, who were upset by Papatoetoe in their Jubilee Trophy semi-final.
Auckland Club Rugby Results 15-07-23
Premier Men:
Gallagher Shield semi-finals:
SF1: Grammar TEC 17 – Manukau 38
SF2: Ponsonby 17 – University 24
Jubilee Trophy Semi-Finals:
SF1: PURC 15 – Papatoetoe 26
SF2: College Rifles 18 – Suburbs 20
Portola Trophy Semi-Finals:
SF1: Eden 22 – Waitemata 22
SF2: Marist LBD – Otahuhu WBD
Premier Reserve Men:
George Nicholson Trophy Semi-Finals:
SF1: University 8 – Waitemata 15
SF2: Ponsonby 14 – Manukau 18
Peter Fatialofa Trophy Semi-Finals:
SF1: College Rifles 15 – PURC 33
SF2: Grammar TEC LBD – Puketapapa WBD
U21 Men:
Arthur Bayliss Cup Semi-Finals:
SF1: Manukau Underdogs 10 – PURC 20
SF2: University White 24 – Grammar TEC 27
Stan Foster Memorial Plate Semi-Finals:
SF1: Ponsonby 29 – College Rifles 31
SF2: Eden 9 – Waitemata 17
Auckland Club Rugby finals fixtures 22/07/23:
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Gallagher Shield Final (1 v 2): University v Manukau Rovers
Jubilee Trophy Final (5 v 6): Papatoetoe v Suburbs
Portola Trophy Final (9 v 10): Otahuhu v Waitemata
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George Nicholson Trophy Final (1 v 2): Manukau v Waitemata
Peter Fatialofa Trophy Final (5 v 6): Puketapapa v PURC
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Arthur Bayliss Cup Final (1 v 2): Grammar TEC v PURC (Waitemata Park, 1pm)
Stan Foster Memorial Plate Final (5 v 6): College Rifles vs Waitemata
The Fox Premier Howick Hornets are sitting pretty in third place after recording their fifth consecutive win over the weekend. Photo / Graham Alderton Photography.
The Howick Hornets Rugby League Football Club have peaked at the right time, winning their three premier matches in the penultimate round of the Auckland Rugby League season.
The Fox premier reserves got the club off to a hot start at the weekend as they thumped the Bay Roskill Vikings 82-6.
The Fox premiers were no different as they put away Bay Roskill 40-18 for their fifth win in a row.
Saturday’s win for the Fox premiers was made even sweeter with the celebration of Hornets halfback Liam Prendergast’s 50第 premier match.
The Hornets’ premier women (‘Nets) closed out the week on Sunday as they hosted bottom-of-the-table Taniwharau at Paparoa Park.
While it was a close match up until half time, the ‘Nets showed their class, running in a further five tries in the second half to record win number seven for the season.
Special mention to powerhouse Ma’atuleio Fotu-Moala who crossed over for a hattrick to complement Taylor Curtis and Lisa Edwards Rua’s brace of tries.
The women have an exciting week ahead as they will play at the New Zealand Warriors’ home ground, Mt Smart Stadium on Wednesday night in front of Sky Sport cameras.
Howick Hornets Rugby League results
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Howick Hornets vs Bay Roskill Vikings
HT: Howick 30 – Bay Roskill 6
FT: Howick 40 – Bay Roskill 18
Other fixtures
Marist Saints 18 – Point Chevalier Pirates 38
Glenora Bears 4 – Otahuhu Leopards 68
Te Atatu Roosters 16 – Mount Albert Lions 24
Manukau Magpies 4 – Papakura Sea Eagles 26
Mangere East Hawks 0 – Richmond Rovers 72
Fox Memorial Premiership Standings
地点
团队
已播放
获胜
绘制
丢失
分数
+ / –
1
PT CHEVALIER PIRATES
10
9
1
0
19
+ 200
2
RICHMOND ROVERS
10
8
1
1
17
+ 180
3
HOWICK HORNETS
10
8
0
2
16
+ 98
4
PAPAKURA SEA EAGLES
10
7
0
3
14
+ 77
5
OTAHUHU LEOPARDS
10
6
0
4
12
+ 184
6
MARIST SAINTS
10
5
0
5
10
– 4
7
TE ATATU ROOSTERS
10
4
0
6
8
– 1
8
GLENORA BEARS
10
4
0
6
8
– 60
9
MANUKAU MAGPIES
10
3
1
6
7
– 42
10
MOUNT ALBERT LIONS
10
3
1
6
7
– 48
11
BAY ROSKILL VIKINGS
10
1
0
9
2
– 160
12
MANGERE EAST HAWKS
10
0
0
10
0
– 424
Fox Memorial Premier Reserve Grade
Howick Hornets vs Bay Roskill Vikings
FT: Howick 82 – Bay Roskill 6
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Howick Hornets vs Taniwharau
HT: Howick 16 – Tainwharau 16
FT: Howick 38 – Taniwharau 26
Tries: Ma’atuleio Fotu-Moala (3), Taylor Curtis (2), Lisa Edwards Rua (2), Cilia-Marie Po’e-Tofaeono.
Conversion(s): Platinum Marsters (3).
Other Fixtures
Otahuhu Leopards 18 – City 30
Manurewa Marlins 12 – Mount Albert Lions 46
Otara – BYE
Women’s Premiership Standings
地点
团队
已播放
获胜
绘制
丢失
分数
+ / –
1
OTARA SCORPIONS
9
9
0
0
22
+ 138
2
HOWICK HORNETS
10
7
1
2
19
+ 186
3
MOUNT ALBERT LIONS
10
7
1
2
19
+ 116
4
CITY
10
6
0
4
14
+ 70
5
OTAHUHU LEOPARDS
11
3
0
8
8
– 162
6
MANUREWA MARLINS
10
1
0
9
6
– 164
7
TANIWHARAU
10
1
0
9
6
– 184
Howick Hornets upcoming fixtures
Round 13 Women’s Premiership- Howick Hornets Premier Women v Mount Albert Lions Premier Women at Mount Smart Stadium – Wednesday, July 19, 6pm.
Round 11 Fox Memorial Premier Reserve Grade- Howick Hornets Premier Reserve Men v Marist Saints Premier Reserve Men at Murray Halberg Park – Saturday, July 22, 12.45pm.
Round 11 Fox Memorial Premiership- Howick Hornets Premier Men v Marist Saints Premier Men at Murray Halberg Park – Saturday, July 22, 2.30pm
With half a million more people expected to live in the city by 2058, the draft Future Development Strategy is the council’s plan to make sure homes, jobs and infrastructure are built in the right places, at the right time. Photo Wayne Martin
With two weeks left to go, Auckland Council is urging people to give their feedback on how Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland should grow over the next 30 years.
With half a million more people expected to live in the city by 2058, the draft Future Development Strategy is the council’s plan to make sure homes, jobs and infrastructure are built in the right places, at the right time.
The plan focusses on protecting our environment and building our resilience to natural hazards by growing in a way that both reduces emissions and adapts to climate change. It also aims to ensure enough homes can be built to meet demand over the next 30 years.
The consultation period was due to close at the beginning of the month but has been extended to July 31, 2023.
Auckland Council’s general manager of the Auckland Plan, Strategy and Research, Jacques Victor, says it’s important for the city to have a clear, agreed plan for managing its growth.
“At the heart of this plan is making sure we are future-proofing our city for its next generations, and we want to hear from as many Aucklanders as possible on whether they think we have got this right.”
What can Aucklanders have their say on?
We want to hear from Aucklanders on the following proposals in the draft Future Development Strategy:
to focus most of Auckland’s growth in existing urban areas, rather than growing more at the edges of the city
to focus development near local centres, making it easier for people to access work, services, facilities and shops by walking, cycling and public transport
to avoid further growth in areas that are exposed to significant risk of environmental hazards
to prioritise nature-based infrastructure that responds to the impacts of climate change.Submissions are open until July 31, 2023. People can make a submission online through the Auckland Council website at: akhaveyoursay.nz/futureauckland.
Jacqui Hand (left) and Milly Clegg will both make their FIFA Women’s World Cup debuts for the Football Ferns this week.
Two former Bucklands Beach Association Football Club (BBAFC) players are set to suit up in the black jersey for the Football Ferns during their FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign.
Milly Clegg and Jacqui Hand will both make their FIFA Women’s World Cupdebuts this month as New Zealand co-host the tournament with Australia.
For Clegg, representing New Zealand is in her DNA. Her mother Kylie Clegg was a Women’s Black Sticks player and represented New Zealand at the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
To add to her athletic genes, Clegg’s uncle Mark Foy also played football for New Zealand, pulling on the All Whites jersey on three occasions.
Clegg joined BBAFC at the end of 2019 to play striker in a boys NRFL Youth League team. She scored the most goals for the team in 2020.
Milly Clegg spent a lot of her time at BBAFC playing in boys teams where she shone.
“Milly is very driven and you could see from the age of 14 that she was this good and would make it as a professional Footballer. Her attitude is amazing and she always wants to be the best and trains hard. She loved playing in a boy’s environment that really pushed her to be the best,” says BBAFC Director of Football, Sander Waterland.
In 2020, the 时代 reported that Clegg scored 14 goals in just six games for BBAFC during a Labour Weekend National U19 football tournament in Napier.
She was included in the women’s team of the tournament as well as named in the New Zealand U17 national training team.
Now three years later at the age of 17, Clegg is the youngest player in the Football Ferns’ FIFA Women’s World Cup Squad.
It was recently announced that she will not be returning for a second season with the Wellington Phoenix after rejecting a new offer to instead sign with fellow A-League women’s side, the Western Sydney Wanderers for the 2023-24 season.
As for Hand, she is becoming a regular face in the black jersey after making her international debut for the NZ U20 team at the 2018 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup and her senior debut in 2021 against Canada.
The 24-year-old has now notched up a handful of games for the Football Ferns as well as a couple of goals to boot.
Hand attended Pigeon Mountain Primary School and played her junior Football for BBAFC before joining Eastern Suburbs.
In their pre-World Cup friendly match against Vietnam on July 10, Hand helped the Football Ferns over the line, scoring a goal in the 44第 minute.
The Football Ferns’ World Cup campaign will get underway on Thursday, July 20 when they face Norway at Auckland’s Eden Park in the tournament’s opening match.
Football Ferns’ Women’s World Cup Schedule:
Pool Game One- New Zealand vs Norway (Thursday, July 20, 7pm) at Eden Park, Auckland.
Pool Game Two- New Zealand vs Philippines (Tuesday, July 25, 5.30pm) at Sky Stadium, Wellington.
Pool Game Three- New Zealand vs Switzerland (Sunday, July 30, 7pm) at Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.
Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown, left, and Botany MP and National Party leader Christopher Luxon say National will urgently address the dire state of the country’s roads. Times file photo Chris Harrowell
The National Party will establish a $500 million fund to fix potholes on New Zealand’s roads if elected to Government at this year’s general election.
Botany MP and party leader Christopher Luxon joined Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown to make the announcement in East Tamaki on July 16.
They say National will also issue a directive to Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency to double the current rate of roading renewals and halve the standard response rate for pothole repair from 48 hours to 24 hours.
Brown, the party’s transport spokesperson, says the new Pothole Repair Fund will aim to urgently address the “shocking state of our local roads and state highways”.
“In 2022, over 54,000 potholes needed repair on state highways around New Zealand, the highest number in 10 years.
“In Auckland alone, there’s a backlog of 1000 kilometres of needed road repairs, with Auckland Transport estimating it will take up to 10 years to clear.
“Potholes are a safety hazard and have been causing significant damage and disruption to freight and motorists all over the country.”
Brown says the fund will see an additional $500m over three years allocated to local authorities and Waka Kotahi to address potholes and other damage to local roads and state highways.
“The cost of the Pothole Repair Fund will be met from re-prioritising spending within the National Land Transport Programme.
“That includes a reduction in expenditure on activities which unnecessarily slow traffic down such as blanket speed limit reductions and excessive speed bump installations, or the failed Road to Zero advertising campaign, toward investment in safer roads which are properly maintained.
“Rather than wasting money on slowing people down, giant red zeros, or expensive transport projects nobody wants, like the $30 billion Auckland light rail project, National will focus on fixing and enhancing our roading network to ensure people and freight can move around the country safely and efficiently.”
The announcement follows a move by National late last year that saw it ask the public to help highlight the deteriorating state of the country’s roads through a ‘Pothole of the Week’ campaign.
Luxon and Brown held a press conference near a large pothole, which had been patched over but not repaired, on the surface of Cryers Road in East Tamaki.
They asked Kiwis to sign a petition and send in photos of potholes in their local area via the party’s Facebook page.
Brown said motorists are tired of potholes peppering New Zealand’s roads, damaging vehicles, and causing havoc for motorists.
He said potholes are a safety hazard which is why they need to be fixed.
“We’re hearing from people every day who say the roads are the worst they’ve ever seen them.”
Labour Government Transport Minister David Parker has blamed the previous National Government, which left office in 2017, for the poor state of the country’s roads due to it having frozen road maintenance.
ACT Party leader David Seymour wants to see tougher sentences for criminals who attack a person in their place of work. Times file photo
The ACT Party will introduce tougher sentences for offenders who attack victims in the workplace if elected to Government this year.
“Workers on the frontline are facing an increasingly violent New Zealand,” party leader David Seymour says.
“It’s time to take an approach that puts victims first, so New Zealand’s shopkeepers, taxi and bus drivers, security guards, small retailers and other frontline workers can operate without fear.”
He says the party will amend the Sentencing Act 2002 so judges must take into account the fact a serious violent offence occurred against a worker during their course of work as an aggravating factor.
That means if a victim suffered a serious violent crime in their workplace or during the course of their work, a judge will be able to hand down a longer sentence.
Particular regard should be taken if the worker and/or their family was particularly vulnerable, for example if they were working alone, or had an adjoining home.
“The frequency and intensity of retail crime is on the rise,” Seymour says.
“We see shocking images of workers being assaulted in the media every day.
“Dairy owners and other small retailers are now putting themselves inside cages so criminals can’t get behind the counter.
“There is no place for this kind of senseless violence in New Zealand. The law needs to reflect this.”
Seymour says police data shows there were 18,769 aggravated robbery victimisations from 2017 to April 2023, but only 8,162 proceedings.
“Every instance of aggravated robbery in a workplace represents an instance where the worker faces a risk of real harm.
“Too often, workers on the frontline of an aggravated robbery suffer completely unprovoked assaults, making the prospect of an attack even more distressing.
“It’s time we sent a message to New Zealand that crime will be punished, that criminals can’t get away with committing senseless violent acts on people trying to earn a living, and that victims are at the heart of the justice system.”
ShareBoating CEO Wayne Huang, centre, at the Viaduct.
Whitford-based ShareBoating – a digital marketplace for marine charters – recently hosted an open day at the Viaduct, viewing some of Auckland’s high-profile charter vessels.
ShareBoating CEO Wayne Huang, who also acts as rear commodore power at Bucklands Beach Yacht Club, said: “Auckland is a gateway to New Zealand, a gateway that deserves to be explored through sailing and motor boating experiences.”
The day sought to introduce new migrant members of the community to the world of boat chartering, immersing them in Kiwi culture.
“Our traditional sport of sailing can accelerate the integration of new settlers into our community,” said Huang.
The group of guests visited a collection of vessels including Lion New Zealand, Steinlager 2, Sea Breeze’, Templar and Nirvana, all vessels that regularly explore the Hauraki Gulf.
“I would like to thank the 豪维克和帕库兰加时报 for helping to promote this community-orientated day and would like to thank the wider Pakuranga community for participating in and supporting this latest venture.”
Counties Manukau Police detectives executed two search warrants today, with 36 charges filed in the investigation so far. File photo supplied
Three people are facing charges relating to alleged historical sexual offending committed at an east Auckland care provider.
Police say a year-long investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a contracted care provider in East Tamaki has resulted in the trio’s arrest.
Counties Manukau Police detectives executed two search warrants across South Auckland today, with 36 charges filed so far in connection to the investigation.
Detective senior sergeant Mal Hassall says the investigation began in July last year after a report of concern was made to police.
“Our investigation has examined allegations of historical physical and sexual abuse of young boys in the care of this provider over a period of nearly seven years.
“Those charges filed today relate to offences such as sexual violation, injuring and neglect of a child.”
The alleged offending occurred between October, 2003, and July, 2010.
Those charged are two men, aged 62 and 39, and a 66-year-old woman.
All three were expected to appear in the Manukau District Court today.
The charges relate to alleged offending against nine victims, Hassall says, and further charges cannot be ruled out.
“We have spoken to a large number of former residents of this facility, however, we know there are still some police have not yet been able to speak with.”
Those people are asked to contact police through the 105 phone service quoting ‘Operation Pocket’ or the file number 220721/6568.
“I encourage anyone who has information or concerns they need to raise with police in connection with this facility to get in contact with our investigation,” Hassall says.
“The welfare of victims is our priority and we have ensured there is support available for all of those who have been engaging with the investigation.
“Anyone who is considering approaching police can be assured that their matter will be taken seriously and treated in confidence.”
The Midweek ladies of Howick Tennis Club have once again supported the Jammies in June and we dropped off around 60 pairs of PJs to Crawford Medical Centre.
The Howick Tennis Club Midweek Ladies held their annual Jammies in June fun tournament on June 28.
Entry fee to the tournament was a pair of children’s pyjamas which are to be donated to the Middlemore Foundation’s appeal.
Midweek members from Cockle Bay and Pakuranga also supported the tournament and 60 pairs of pyjamas, slippers and dressing gowns were given by these very generous club members.
Each year at the Midweek AGM, the Howick ladies vote to hold tournaments to fundraise for various charities in the Howick-Pakuranga area.
Leading up to Christmas, two more tournaments will be held with proceeds going to Foster Hope and the All Saints Food Bank.
The National Party says it will build a new medical school at the University of Waikato if elected to Government at this year’s general election. Photo college.mayo_.edu
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Last week, National announced that if elected to government in October, we will build a new medical school at the University of Waikato.
This is great news not only for Hamilton, but all of New Zealand, with more doctors to be trained here in New Zealand as a result of this policy.
We will also increase the number of students in existing medical schools, creating more placements to ensure more doctors are trained locally every year.
East Auckland is not alone in suffering sick and injured New Zealanders stuck with long waiting hours in emergency departments, weeks to see a GP, and months on surgical wait lists.
New Zealand does not train enough doctors to meet the demands of our growing and aging population, or to replace our retiring health workforce.
We need more doctors in our city and we need more doctors all over New Zealand.
So, on top of the new Waikato medical school, which will train 120 new doctors every year, we will increase the number of medical school placements at existing medical schools in Auckland and Otago by a total of 50 from 2025.
This is on top of the 50 extra places announced earlier this year.
Together, this will see an additional 220 extra doctors graduating a year by 2030, compared to just 50 more under Labour’s plan.
The new medical school will have clinical training alliances with other universities and medical facilities around regional New Zealand – a model that will deliver more doctors committed to serving in provincial and rural parts of the country too.
Increasing home-grown doctors is vital to delivering the public services that New Zealanders deserve and National sees this as an essential and long-term investment.
This medical school should have been started five years ago as the previous National Government planned.
Labour cancelled it in 2018 and their short-sightedness means we will have to continue to rely heavily on immigration to increase our doctor numbers in the short term.
A responsible government plans for the future, and that is exactly what a National government will do.
