Men charged after incident on Kaimais
Two men have been arrested and charged after an altercation that left a man unconscious on the side of the road in the Kaimai Range.
Two men have been arrested and charged after an altercation that left a man unconscious on the side of the road in the Kaimai Range.
A logjam in the middle of the Seeka KI Western BOP championship sets up a number of vital clashes tomorrow for the four teams with semifinal aspirations.
Gold kiwifruit export volumes have dropped more than 50 per cent - but the industry is confident it will bounce back.
The Chiefs' Super Rugby carnival moves to Pukekohe's ECOLight Stadium on Friday night when the New Zealand competition leaders take on the Western Force.
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This heartland Kiwi community takes great pride in its local rugby team winning the Baywide championship for two years in a row and in providing the captain of the Maori All Blacks touring the UK.
The district is enjoying a mini building boom despite the ravages of a kiwifruit bacteria, Psa-V, during the past two years.
The local secondary school is rebuilding half its campus at a cost of $13 million while a local supermarket has embarked on a $10-million plus build, resited on the edge of Jubilee Park in the middle of town.
As consequence of that development, a new inter-generational playground where grandparent/parents/big kids can have fun on the same gear that youngsters climb all over, is to be opened after the annual Santa parade, early next month.
Kiwifruit growers firmly believe that plant scientists will nail the underlying cause of Psa and appear optimistic that a breakthrough is only a matter of a season away.
Meanwhile, Te Puke’s vision has moved beyond just the town of about 7000 people, which includes a many Indian and Nepalese families who contribute to the broad ethnic sweep of the area, alongside Maori and Pakeha.
The smaller villages of Waitangi, Maketu, Pukehina, Paengaroa, Pongakawa also contribute news to the Te Puke Times and expect to see their events covered. .
Opotiki College First XV held off a late charge from their Mount Maunganui counterparts to take a win from their first match of the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic Secondary Schools Competition on Saturday.
Join the conversationOutgoing National MP Aaron Gilmore has apparently sent threatening text messages to a number of people after he decided to resign from Parliament. The MP, who will make his valedictory speech tomorrow, is believed to have sent messages to lawyer Andrew Riches and others, telling them to look up the meaning of "utu". Mr Gilmore announced his intention to retire from Parliament last night after a series of allegations including that he abused a waiter and sent inappropriate emails while on a government contract. Mr Riches wrote a note to a Hanmer Springs hotel to apologise for Mr Gilmore's behaviour…
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