Get other Popular Fiction hereEdith Ballinger Price (1897-1997) was an American writer and illustrator. Starting in 1911 she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She later studied at the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. She was very interested in the Girl Scouts of America and started the Brownie Scouts program.
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Faces covered with jerseys, the schoolboys who worshipped Nazi memorabilia have arrived at the Auckland War Memorial Museum to apologise.
The pupils admitted taking photos of themselves in school uniform kissing a swastika, making a Nazi salute, and kneeling in homage before a Nazi flag on a visit to the museum.
The images appeared on social networking site Facebook, but were laterremoved.30am accompanied by a teacher.
The students arrived at the museum about 9. They refused to speak to the media and covered their faces with their jerseys. They will apologise to museum staff and meet with war veterans to explain their actions.
Earlier this month, Lincoln University fined 15 students $200, made them write an essay on the Holocaust and visit the Holocaust Centre and the German embassy, both in Wellington, at their own expense. The students were scheduled to visit the Holocaust Centre today. .
Auckland Grammar principal John Morris said the incident happened at the beginning of the year, although the school first learned of the photos on Friday after a former pupil viewed them on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said he was ashamed to be an old boy of Auckland Grammar after the actions of the schoolboys.
The pupils’ families were told yesterday and the boys will face unspecified disciplinary action. Mr Morris said there was “absolutely no justification for the immature and unthinking actions of the boys”.
This is the second high-profile embarrassment for Auckland Grammar this year.
This is the second high-profile embarrassment for Auckland Grammar this year.
“It might seem a long time [ago] to them, but it’s still in the lifetime of young survivors.
Holocaust Museum director Inge Woolf wants a meeting between the pupils and Holocaust survivors such as herself.
“It’s very upsetting for anyone that understands how terrible the Nazis were.”
Ms Woolf fled from Vienna when the Nazis invaded, and came to New Zealand in 1958 after her family were killed in the Holocaust.
. We certainly don’t want that here in New Zealand – it’s not the way the New Zealand society behaves,” she said
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An Air Force helicopter loaded with searchers has taken off for the Tararua Ranges as the hunt for missing Te Papa chief executive Seddon Bennington his and female tramping companion Marcella Jackson continues.
Police earlier today released the name of Mrs Jackson, known as Rosie Jackson.
The pair set off from Otaki Forks on Saturday for Kime Hut, about 10 kilometres into the range, but failed to return on Sunday afternoon as planned. Mrs Jackson is also from the Wellington area, and is described as a long standing family friend of Mr Bennington.
The search resumed at first light today – but early efforts to send in extra rescue teams were far been hampered by heavy rain, low fog and mist. .15am carrying five searchers.
Taking advantage of a break in the weather, an Air Force Iroquois helicopter took off from Levin Showgrounds at 10.
Four or five more teams could either be flown in or hike in from Otaki Forks later in the day. The rescuers were heading for Penn Creek, close to Kime Hutt.
She said it was “still very challenging” weatherwise, although there was some suggestion it could clear this afternoon.
Police spokeswoman Kim Perks told Radio New Zealand some searchers had remained in the ranges overnight. They may not be able to get our personnel right to the very top but they’ll certainly be able to look for opportunities to get them in as high as possible.
“It’s not all doom and gloom.
Teams today have to contend with low cloud, strong wind and heavy snow, with an overnight low last night of about -2 degrees Celsius.”
More teams are likely to be deployed this afternoon.
There had not been any contact or sign of the missing pair but police were still hopeful they would be found alive and well. Snow is waist-deep in some areas.
A freezing southerly is due to sweep up the country and hit the area today, however the MetService has cancelled a weather alert for severe gale-force winds about exposed areas of Hawkes Bay and the Tararua District.
Ms Perks added that there had been cases in the past of people being trapped in the area for extended periods and getting out safely.
In all, four search and rescue teams comprising 14 people started searching, but stopped about 6pm when it got dark.
The initial search and rescue operation was launched yesterday morning when teams were carried into the ranges by the Square Trust rescue helicopter.
. Heavy cloud had prevented the use of a helicopter
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A gunman has killed 12 or 13 people in an immigration services centre in Binghamton, New York, Governor David Paterson said.
The gunman then killed himself, ABC News reported.
“An individual went into an American civic services centre .
ABC News, citing federal and state authorities, said 26 people were also wounded in the incident at Binghamton, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of New York City… and has killed 12 or 13 people,” Paterson said..
The area was surrounded by police with rifles, some carrying shields. There was no immediate word on a motive for the shooting.
As many as 41 people were inside the building when a man entered and started shooting, local television WBNG said, citing police scanners. Some local media reports said the suspected shooter was Asian and that authorities requested a Vietnamese translator to speak with him.
Four people were removed from the American Civic Association building on stretchers and taken to hospitals, the Press & Sun-Bulletin newspaper reported on its website. It said some fled to a basement and more than a dozen were hiding in a closet, adding that emergency dispatchers had been in contact with people inside. .
Others came out on foot.S.
The American Civic Association building is used to teach English and provide other services to recent immigrants to the United States who are preparing for U.
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Severe thunderstorms are lashing parts of the country earlier today, with more than 11,000 lightning strikes recorded in some areas over the last 12 hours, according to MetService.
An active front is moving northwards up the West Coast of the South Island bringing thunderstorms and very heavy rainfall, MetService forecaster Paul Mallinson said.
Thousands of lightning strikes have been recorded in Fiordland and Westland and the “very active front” is expected to migrate northwards up the coast this evening.
Communities such as Greymouth, Hokitika and Franz Joseph could be at risk of a possible tornado, Mr Mallison said.
“Some of these thunderstorms may be severe with potentially damaging wind squalls, localised very heavy rainfall of 25–40 mm/hr and the risk of a damaging tornado, especially in coastal areas.
Mr Mallison advised people in these areas to be aware that rivers and streams are likely to rise quickly and surface flooding and slips are possible. .
TRAFFIC WOES IN LOWER NORTH ISLAND
In the lower North Island rainfall is resulting in havocs on the roads, with three separate car accidents in the region earlier today.30am earlier today.
Wellington Police had been called to a collision between a car and truck on the Aotea onramp on the Wellington Urban Motorway around 8.
Masterton Police had been called to a two-car collision on State Highway Two in West Taratahi around 8am, Mr Oliver said.
Sergeant Mark Oliver said emergency services had also attended a vehicle collision on Haywards Hill Road, north of Wellington, just after 8am.
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The UN Security Council has deplored
what it called a “step backwards” in Fiji, demanding that
the South Pacific island resume moves toward democracy and hold elections
as soon as possible.
Fiji has been plunged into a political crisis since its president reappointed military chief Frank Bainimarama as interim prime minister on April 11, less than two days after a court ruled his 2006 coup and subsequent government illegal.
Since his reappointment, Bainimarama has imposed emergency restrictions and refused to hold elections before 2014.”
“It is a step backwards,” said a statement read to media by Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, the current council president, adding that a “restoration of the democracy process” was required. .
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The council’s 15 members “expressed hopes that Fiji would make a steadfast advancement toward democracy and that free elections will be held at the soonest possible time,” Heller said
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An elderly dog, stolen from its owner’s home and used as fighting “bait”, was mauled by snarling pit bull terriers then suffered a man trying to break its legs.
Lincoln, a 14-year-old ridgeback cross, was left cowering and bleeding after the brutal attack and is now recovering from serious bite wounds at Wellington SPCA.
The charity is offering a $1000 reward for information leading to conviction of those behind the callous crime.
Yesterday, distressed owner Janet Cuthers said Lincoln was “a lovely, placid dog”. Four men are thought to have been involved. He’s an innocent dog, and these people were going to leave him for dead. “He just likes to lie around, he’s very friendly, he thinks he’s a human. I’d like to snap their necks,” she said.
At midday a witness saw him at Shelly Bay with a man who arrived in a red hatchback.
The pet was stolen from Mrs Cuthers’ home in Titahi Bay about 10am on Monday. .
A pit bull chained to the back of a white van was set on Lincoln, and another pit bull encouraged to join in.
When Lincoln bit one of the pit bulls, a man tried to break his legs by pulling them apart. He was all bleeding,” the witness said. “I think because it got a hunk of the other dog they just wanted to kill it. “I think because it got a hunk of the other dog they just wanted to kill it. I’ve got dogs and I’d hate them to be used like this. “It was disgusting. Detective Rebecca Snook of Porirua police said the incident was dreadful.”
After the attack, Lincoln hid in a toilet block and had to be coaxed out by police and animal control officers.”
The owner of the red hatchback was described as a tall Maori, aged about 30, with a ponytail.
“It appears the elderly dog was brought in to be killed or used as bait for dog-fighting practice. The maximum penalty is a $25,000 fine and/or six months in prison.
Dog fighting is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act.
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Mrs Cuthers said the next few days would be critical as vets tried to stop Lincoln’s wounds getting infected.
SPCA spokeswoman Lisa Snow said it was hard to say how big a problem dog fighting was because it was underground.”
Anyone with information can call Porirua police on 04 2381400.”
Anyone with information can call Porirua police on 04 2381400.
.Egyptian police have detained 11 people for questioning about the bomb which killed a French teenager and wounded at least 21 people close to a popular tourist bazaar in Cairo on Sunday, police sources said.
The detainees, all Egyptians, were in the area on Sunday evening around the time of the explosion and were taken into custody overnight and on Monday morning, they added. After security incidents, Egyptian police usually cast their net very wide and then release most of the people they question.
The sources did not say if the police had any hard evidence against the detainees.
The wounded included 13 French tourists, three Saudis, one German and four Egyptians.
The bomb, planted under a bench close to the Khan el-Khalili market in mediaeval Cairo, was the first such attack on tourists in the city since April 2005 and the first in Egypt since an April 2006 bombing in the Sinai resort of Dahab. .
No one has claimed responsibility and analysts said the bomb was probably the work of a small group of disgruntled Egyptians, similar to the one that carried out two operations in 2005.
An Australian tourist who gave her name as Rowena said the incident did not bother her.
At the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, on the banks of the Nile about three kilometres from Khan el-Khalili, the usual crowds poured in to see antiquities including the treasures found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
Vassili Tawadros, who runs the Ding Dong bazaar close to the museum, said: “We work our whole business with tourists. “There’s 20 million in Cairo, so it’s a long way from us,” she said.”
But CI Capital Research said in a report: “As the tourism industry becomes more resilient and the notion of terrorism more widely accepted as a global phenomenon . These things happen and it’s very bad for our business and for Egypt…”
Police stepped up security at tourist locations and around embassies. the impact of political instabilities has started to lessen and to have a shorter time-span.
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WW1 soldier’s missing medals found in stolen car
Monday, 08 September 2008
The grandson of a World War 1 soldier is thrilled to get back his grandfather's war medals which disappeared up to 20 years ago.
The medals were found in a stolen Subaru, driven by a career criminal, after a police chase in Auckland last year, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Mr McCabe's grandson Paul Hitchfield was reunited with the medals last night and said he was delighted to have them back.
They were engraved with "Gunner Percy James McCabe".
It remained a mystery how the medals turned up in the Subaru.
Police could not give the medals back to the soldier's family until after the court case.
They may have disappeared during moving or been taken in an unnoticed burglary.
Mr Hitchfield said he did not know how the medals became lost.
Mr Hitchfield was then 13 and was now his grandfather's next surviving relative.
His grandfather returned from the war in good health, but died from a heart attack in 1971, aged 80.
A spokeswoman at the Waiouru Army Museum said the two medals were known as the British War Medal and the Victory Medal, which were awarded to most soldiers in World War 1.
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