The team on duty gave 100% on the night, but quality forwards aren’t two a penny and to lose three is a blow that few teams could cope with. Anyway the lads on duty gave a good account of them-selves, battled to the final whistle and …
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South Auckland police are hunting a suspected serial paedophile sex offender who has already attacked two young girls. . The attacks started early last month.
Detective Senior Sergeant, Daryl Harper said he had concerns “for the escalating nature and frequency of offending.
The Mangere CIB and Child Abuse Team Detectives are leading the hunt and say the attacks all happened around a walkway between Cape Road and Mascot Avenue in Mangere.
In the first attack on Tuesday September 8, about 2.”
Police are urging parents to walk with their children to and from school in the area.45pm, the man dragged a 12-year-old girl to the ground and indecently assaulted her, said Mr Harper.
The eight-year-old was attacked while her younger sister screamed for help.
Then on Monday October 19 he attacked an 8-year-old girl and her 6-year old sister as they went home from School on the same walkway.
He saw a man and chased him into a close toby park where he lost him. The girls’ father heard the cries and ran into the walkway.
The attacker grabbed her top.
In the last attack, on Thursday October 22 a 28-year-old mother was pushing her son in a pram in the walkway. She punched him and he ran off. She punched him and he ran off.5ft high.
The offender is described as Polynesian man aged 18-20 years, 5.
. On one occasion he wore a dark green hoodie sweat shirt and dark jeans on another he wore a black baseball cap, white hooded sweat shirt with a black or dark collar
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Losses from the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand are expected to reach nearly $40 million as organisers scale back ticket sales expectations.
The forecast loss has grown $9.
The new estimate was directly related to downgraded expectations of ticket sales. .
The Government has agreed to pay two-thirds of the losses and the NZ Rugby Union will pay the rest.
Ticket sales are the only way the Government and New Zealand Rugby Union can make money to offset the losses from hosting the tournament.5 million tickets would be sold out of a total 1.
Mr Snedden said it was expected 1. This was based on New Zealanders buying 1 million.7 million.
The Maori Television Service (MTS), TVNZ and TV3 are working on the joint bid.
Meanwhile local television networks negotiating a joint bid for Rugby World Cup broadcasting rights yesterday reported “significant progress” and said ministers would be updated on Monday.
The aim of the joint bid is to deliver nationwide free-to-air broadcasts of the 2011 tournament.
MTS will lead the bid under a deal brokered by Prime Minister John Key and Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples which averted a bidding war between MTS and TVNZ — both backed by taxpayer funds.
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MTS chief executive Jim Mather has said there was no guarantee a joint bid would be accepted by the IRB
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A principal is pleading for extra support in primary schools after an out-of-control 10-year-old bit a chunk of flesh from her shin and attacked two other staff.
Shirley Maihi, from Finlayson Park School in Manurewa, needed stitches and a tetanus shot after the “horrific” incident.
The decile 1 primary school was ordered to take the troubled pupil after he was kicked out of another school, she said. “His attack has left me with stitches in my leg from a bite which ripped the flesh from my shin, and several large bruises from kicks and punches.
But she maintains that her school was not given enough support from the Education Ministry to handle the child’s “short fuse”. He just snapped.
“There was no indication the attack would happen.”
The pupil was excluded from the school and then roamed the streets, threatening to beat up pupils.
But Education Minister Anne Tolley said it would cost more than $60 million a year and the cash was not available.
Ms Maihi is calling on the Government to fund a counsellor and social worker at all low-decile schools, saying staff are in serious danger every day.
Schools that were “directed” to take troubled pupils were not given enough support.
A letter from Ms Maihi to Mrs Tolley, provided to The under the Official Information Act, details her concerns about the June attack and the lack of available resources.
“My plea to you is to urgently sort out the problems,” she wrote. Primary schools needed to be funded “as of right” for support staff and support agencies such as Child, Youth and Family and the Health Ministry needed to be easily accessible.
The pupil’s mother said last night that she had been asking for help for her son since he was three, when she first suspected he had learning difficulties, including dyslexia.
The pupil’s mother said last night that she had been asking for help for her son since he was three, when she first suspected he had learning difficulties, including dyslexia. .
“Early on he really wanted to [learn] but he got frustrated . and frustration turned to anger and in the end he hated school and just gave up.. “Everyone says they’re going to do it but nobody ever puts their hand up to actually help us.”
The family had been shunted from agency to agency.”
Her son was taken into CYF care about a month ago and she was not sure if he was attending alternative education yet. It doesn’t matter how much we’ve tried – it just doesn’t happen.
Mrs Tolley said the incident was “not good for anyone involved”. He would remain in care untila psychological report was completed after Christmas, she said. “The behavioural incident was unacceptable and unpredictable. “The behavioural incident was unacceptable and unpredictable. This does not excuse the behaviour of the student. There will always be incidents that are the actions of a small minority. These incidents dominate the headlines because they are so rare in this country.”
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The man who bashed two women to death in a Titahi Bay house in June has been sentenced to serve at least 19 years of his life imprisonment term.
But the victims’ families say that is less than 10 years for each woman’s life and never want to see him released again.
At the sentencing at the High Court in Wellington earlier today, family heard how Joseph Ogle, 28, had snuck into the Titahi Bay home of his ex-partner and mother of his two children Joeline Edmonds, 20, hitting her on the side of the head with a baseball bat as she lay in bed.
Between conversations, and while Joeline pleaded for her life, Ogle repeatedly struck both woman until blood splattered the walls before leaving them to die.
While she was stunned, Ogle escorted flatmate Jashana Robinson, 16, into the room and hit her from behind with the bat.
“The sentence for me could just never be long enough.
Jashana’s grandmother Linda Blake said there was no way the family could ever forgive Ogle and wanted him locked away for ever. The justice system in this country needs to be overhauled because I don’t think he should ever be left to come out again and do it to other people.”
“He can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned. Life should be life.
“That’s less than 10 years for each life.”
Joeline’s cousin Teresa Bechham, agreed the the sentence was not good enough. It’s a bit of a joke, he gets the last laugh and we have to live with it as both families. [Joeline's] daughters didn’t get 10 years with her.”
Jashana’s father Patrick Robinson said it was “unbelievable” that his daughter had to die when she was an innocent bystander.”
Jashana’s father Patrick Robinson said it was “unbelievable” that his daughter had to die when she was an innocent bystander. You are ruthless, cowardly and cold blooded in what you did to our girl.
“The big man and his softball bat.
Ogle, also known as Joseph Nicholls, had pleaded guilty to murdering Joelene Edmonds, 20, and Jashana Robinson, 16.”
He said there was no chance the family could ever feel pity, forget or forgive Ogle.
Justice Denis Clifford said Ogle’s sentence was reduced by four years to take account of the guilty pleas.
Throughout the entire two-hour court hearing earlier today Ogle kept his head bowed, not responding to angry victim’s family as they addressed him. .
Muffled crying started from the packed court as a Crown lawyer read the summary of what had taken place in the house.
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The small coffin of toddler Aisling Symes has arrived at church draped in an Irish flag and adorned with lilies and her teddy bear.
The service is scheduled to begin at 11am this morning.
The stage in the church hall is packed with hundreds of small teddy bears and pink balloons. . Many of the cards and posters around the church are from local West Auckland children. A cream grand piano stands in the corner amidst numerous tributes to the small child. There were also messages of condolences from the residents of Longburn Rd, the street from which Aisling disappeared last Monday.
In sparkling rainbow writing the messages are adorned with love hearts and say: “Aisling we will miss you” and “Rest in peace”.An autopsy showed she had drowned.
The body of the little girl was found in a stormwater drain on Monday, a week after she disappeared from the home of her late grandparents in Henderson.Mr Watts said the church could hold 450 mourners, so the service would be relayed on big screens to mourners outside.Pastor Russell Watts said the level of practical, loving support had stunned the family and they were happy for the public to attend the funeral.
The order of service shows a picture of the smiling toddler on the front and features illustrations from Aislings favorite story Winnie the Poo inside.
Aislings parents, Alan and Angela, were to be the pall-bearers for their daughters small coffin.
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. The public service will be followed by a private cremation
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New Zealand and the United States are resuming their intelligence sharing cooperation, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has revealed.
Mrs Clinton raised the issue after a meeting with Foreign Minister Murray McCully in Washington today.”
She also promised a step up in US relations with the Pacific.
She said the pair had discussed issues including aid to the Pacific after last week’s tsunami, which was “representative of New Zealanders’ compassion and their commitment to international cooperation. That there was some feeling among countries in the Pacific region that the United States had receded.
“One of the messages that I sent early on in my tenure was that the United States was back.”
She said the US valued New Zealand’s partnership and leadership in areas including defence, security, the Pacific and East Asia, and that was why it was resuming intelligence sharing. Well, there should be no doubt of that.”
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully after their meeting in Washington DC:
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon, everyone, and join me, please, in welcoming Foreign Minister McCully to the State Department.
“We believe that New Zealand has a particular ability to assist us in examining at the broad range of challenges that we face. We have two nations that share democratic values, common historical, economic, and cultural ties, and we’re working to meet a lot of the regional and global challenges together. . But for example, our soldiers serve side by side in Afghanistan.
It would take too long to list everything that demonstrates this partnership. We are working so hard with enhancing our collaboration in laboratories and classrooms. Our businesses and entrepreneurs are working side by side to create jobs and opportunity. And I’m very pleased that President Obama has nominated David Huebner to be the new ambassador for the United States to New Zealand and Samoa. So this is a dynamic and durable partnership.
. If confirmed, I am confident that he will help to strengthen and deepen our partnership even further
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Search and rescue teams are examining for a missing two-year-old girl in Auckland with police holding concerns for her safety.
Ashling disappeared from her Longburn Rd home in Henderson at around 5.40pm last night, Police northern communications shift commander Lance Burdett said. Mr Burdett said police had established a search command centre as concerns grew about Ashling’s welfare due to the poor weather, dark and her young age. Search teams, officers, local residents and helicopters are all involved in the search. Ashling has light brown hair and is wearing a green parka/ski jacket, jeans with embroidered flowers on them and white tennis shoes. He said there was also a swollen creek nearby the family’s home. Residents in the area are asked to thoroughly check their homes, inside and out.
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The man found guilty of murdering German tourist Birgit Brauer in Taranaki in 2005 has appealed against his conviction.
Michael Scott Wallace is serving a life sentence – from which he cannot be paroled for at least 18 years – but the Court of Appeal at Wellington was told today that his lawyers are challenging scientific results linking him to Ms Brauer’s killing.
One of the lawyers, Greg King, said an overseas expert consulted since Wallace’s trial in 2007 says a fingerprint on Ms Brauer’s diary, which the Crown said was Wallace’s print, was too faint and overlaid another print to say it was Wallace’s.
Mr King said Wallace denies it was his print, which raised another ground of appeal about whether his trial lawyer Susan Hughes, QC, was right to accept that it was his and to try to suggest an innocent explanation for how it might have got on Ms Brauer’s diary.
The print had seven characteristics similar to Wallace’s but four which were dissimilar, so the expert said no conclusion could be drawn.
The three Court of Appeal judges have questioned whether the criticism of Ms Hughes was justified given the difficulties she said she had getting instructions fromWallace as to how he wanted his case run.
She had obtained a second opinion about the print which confirmed it was Wallace’s. Even now it was not certain what her instructions were. The judges said the evidence they had was only that he now denies it was his. .
Her body was found at Lucy’s Gully, south of New Plymouth, in September 2005.
Wallace’s lawyers are also challenging DNA findings from the trial which they say undermines another alleged physical link between Wallace and the killing of Ms Brauer, 28.
The appeal hearing is continuing.
It was alleged Wallace picked her up as she hitch-hiked, beforebattering her with a metal bar and stabbing her.
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BREAKING NEWS:
New Zealand will seek a place on the United Nations Security Council, Prime Minister John Key has announced.
Mr Key confirmed New Zealand’s candidature in a speech being delivered to the United Nations General Assembly today. He is the first National prime minister to address the general assembly in nearly 15 years.
Mr Key said New Zealand would seek a place on the security council at elections in 2014 because it was committed to “upholding the international rule of law” and believed it could be a “strong and principled” voice for small Pacific states. The last was Jim Bolger in 1995.
In a wide ranging speech, Mr Key underscored New Zealand’s nuclear-free credentials, and said New Zealand was optimistic for progress after this week’s historic Security Council resolution to make progress toward ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
New Zealand has held a seat on the Security Council three times in its 56 year history – in 1954 for a two year term, in 1965, for a one year term, and in 1993 for a two year term.
He also urged the UN to focus on the challenge of climate change, warning that the world could not afford to contemplate failure at upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen.
He urged the grouping of the world’s wealthiest nations to push for a successful round of the Doha trade talks.
Mr Key preceded his pitch by speaking up for small nations as G8 leaders meet in Pittsburgh. .
“. heed the voice of the world’s small economies. . . .”
He also pleaded for states and groups who broke commitments over price controls and agricultural restrictions to think again and consider the high food prices which have resulted. At a time when all countries are suffering from the brunt of the current economic crisis, further delay is inexcusable.
“As a proudly nuclear-free nation and as a country that has been at the forefront of this debate since the 1970s New Zealand stands ready to play its part.
Mr Key reminded nations of New Zealand’s efforts to combat nuclear proliferation while welcoming yesterday’s security council resolution on reduction measures.
“This alliance would undertake international research and investment into new technologies and practices to help reduce agriculture-related emissions, and for greater co-ordination of existing efforts.”
He spoke about the New Zealand initiative to set up an international alliance for research into reducing agricultural emissions.
“My family fled persecution in Europe and I was privileged to grow up in a new world where a child of immigrants is now accorded the extraordinary privilege of leading his country and addressing this assembly on its behalf.”
Mr Key began his speech with a Maori greeting and a personal note – he talked about the opportunity he received as the child of immigrants and how that reflected UN ideals.”