[ad_1] The board of a struggling charitable trust, created to help people with disabilities, spent $ 670,000 of public money and donations on consultants, including paying its own president nearly $ 100,000 to write reports. Laura Fergusson Rehabilitation Greenlane Center in Auckland. Photo: RNZ Details of where the money was …
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[ad_1] Key players in New Zealand’s burgeoning medical cannabis industry are divided over whether the plant should be legalized. While neither have plans to enter the recreational market, one company says New Zealand’s medical profession is not ready for legalization. Others say that kiwis are already consuming illicit cannabis and …
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[ad_1] Sports games and arts events are set for the crowds to return, as everyone living outside Auckland can return to a semblance of normalcy with the loosening of the mass gathering rules. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that on Monday at 11:59 PM, the country, in addition to Auckland, …
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[ad_1] Pilgrim was born in Gloriavale and is trusted within the community. But a 14-page letter he wrote to leader Howard Temple made his position within the Christian group untenable, said Liz Gregory of the Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust. “Anyone who writes a letter like that and gives it to …
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[ad_1] An aviation body says a prediction by Air New Zealand chief Greg Foran that a transtasman travel bubble is at least six months away is “unfortunately” realistic. But small cruise companies hope to It may give Kiwis more vacation options this summer. Justin Tighe-Umbers, co-chair of the New Zealand …
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[ad_1] MARK TAYLOR / Stuff Four men broke into Orren Scott Williams’ home to steal drugs in the winter of 2019, and he is alleged to have shot them, killed one and injured the others. A man is accused of shooting to death an intruder who attempted to steal drugs …
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[ad_1] Hannah Peters / Getty Images The All Blacks will be back at Sky Stadium on October 11 to perform their haka, this time on a Sunday afternoon against the Wallabies. A Wellington crowd that rivals the more than 37,000 who flocked to the British and Irish Lions in 2017 …
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[ad_1] Louisa Steyl / Things ACT party candidate Nicole McKee, party leader David Seymour and rural spokesperson Mark Cameron visited a Wreys Bush farm on Monday to announce the party’s rural policy, before heading to Te Anau to speak with tour operators. The partial reopening of the border will be …
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[ad_1] A Gloriavale leader was expelled after criticizing “ungodly” rules and the lack of accountability of the church leadership. Zion Pilgrim, a longtime trustee of the religious group, wrote a letter to leader Howard Temple expressing concern about “sexual immorality” and a “preeminence of sin” in the community, Newshub reported. …
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[ad_1] By RNZ Today’s decision on alert levels has made Auckland residents happy and some hope the rules will be further relaxed. It has been three weeks since Auckland moved to what has been called alert level 2.5, while the rest of the country has been to level 2, but …
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