[ad_1] The Christchurch Botanic Gardens have been the victims of a plant craze that spans the entire country. A variegated monstera, a rare and sought-after plant in New Zealand, was stolen from a safe place in the garden’s orchid house last weekend. Christchurch resident Bridget Rennie said Stuff she took …
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[ad_1] Sir Richard Hadlee has expressed surprise at the sudden passing of former Australian cricketer Dean Jones, whom he described as a good friend. Jones died suddenly at the age of 59 in Mumbai last night from a suspected heart attack. He was working in India as a commentator for …
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[ad_1] A parody of the “Oscars” at the Auckland Grammar School is under fire after prefects handed out math and science awards to stereotypical Asian names such as “Ching” and “Chong.” A Year 13 student at the school said the parody of the prefects, presented at a school assembly this …
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[ad_1] TOM LEE / STUFF / Stuff While his two-year-old son was playing with a methamphetamine pipe in a locked car, Kebone Anthony Nkhasi went on a robbery at the Chartwell Countdown supermarket. A two-year-old boy was left alone in a car outside a Hamilton shopping center with a methamphetamine …
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[ad_1] Sir Richard Hadlee and Dean Jones spent the last day of Christmas north of Melbourne together, the jokes flowed, each still referring to the other as their cricket “bunny”. Tasmania’s great cricket rivals kept in touch; Jones regularly saw Hadlee in recent years as she underwent surgery and treatment …
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[ad_1] New Zealand Police / Supplied Katrina Epiha allegedly escaped from Corrections on September 11 after being taken to Middlemore Hospital. Captured fugitive Katrina Epiha has been taken into custody after she got into a fight with custody officers at the pier. Epiha, 22, faced a charge of escaping legal …
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[ad_1] Air New Zealand expects to complete a cash increase before June and has started to take advantage of a $ 900 million Covid-19 support loan from the Government. In a statement sent to the New Zealand Stock Exchange on Friday afternoon, Air New Zealand President Dame Therese Walsh said …
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[ad_1] JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON / Stuff Bill Sutton’s home in the Christchurch river red light district has been gifted to the city. Bill Sutton’s historic home on the Christchurch River Red Light District, where the celebrated Canterbury artist created some of his most notable works, has been gifted to the city. …
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[ad_1] A motorist took a risk when they used wood to replace the door. Passerby Kamm Kawau saw the incident on Dunedin’s Andersons Bay Rd on Thursday afternoon. “Look at the door of this car,” he says in a video seen more than 65,000 times on Facebook. It shows the …
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[ad_1] National leader Judith Collins refused to criticize two of her MPs for circulating a false quote from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday. Collins said he did not believe MPs should remove his posts as they were “genuinely reflecting what they believe.” National MPs Matt King and Harete Hipango …
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