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Six people lost their lives on the roads
during Labour Weekend, two more than last year.
The final fatal crash occurred shortly before 5pm yesterday, close to Waihi, in the western Bay of Plenty.
Waikato police said it was believed the man, a rear passenger, was not wearing a seatbelt.
A 24-year-old Saudi man died when a rented mini-van carrying eight people failed to take a bend on State Highway 2 and rolled, coming to a stop in a paddock.
Yesterday morning, a Wellington woman was killed by a bus she was trying to catch in Porirua.
“Once again we find ourselves reflecting on the needless loss of someone thrown from a vehicle while not restrained,” road policing manager Inspector Leo Tooman said.
Motorcyclist Matthew Edward Carpinter, 31, died on Sunday when he crashed into a bridge on State Highway 6 close to Greymouth, on the West Coast.
Police said she was chasing after the bus trying to get the attention of the driver when she tripped and fell under the vehicle, which was packed with passengers.
Inquiries were continuing but excessive speed was a possible contributing factor.
Police said he was riding with a group when he lost control of his motorcycle around 5pm.
Two women killed in a head on smash on SH1 at Five Mile Bay close to Taupo on Saturday have still not been named.
Tod Woodman, 16, died in Nelson on Sunday when a 4WD rolled off the Maungatapu Track into a river.
The elderly woman died at the scene while a 53-year-old woman who had been a passenger in the 4WD died later in hospital.
Police said a 79-year-old woman’s car crossed the centre line and smashed into a 4WD.
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Three people – including a baby – were in a critical condition after a head-on crash on Te Pahu Rd last night.
The baby was flown to Auckland’s Starship Hospital after his mother’s car and another, driven by 16-year-old male, collided.
The crash happened on a straight section of Te Pahu Rd, south of the village and west of Hamilton, at 4.
The woman, a Te Pahu resident, and the teenager were in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night.40pm.
The woman’s visibly-shocked husband turned up at the scene, frantic to know the condition of his wife and baby. Both lay trapped in their crumpled vehicles and had to be cut free by firefighters.
First at the crash site was Te Pahu Rd resident Rob Johnston, who heard the crash from his lounge.
All he could hear were the cries of the baby, who remained strapped in his car seat.
He had run to the crash and found both occupants unresponsive. “I was lying in the car holding the poor fellow’s hand .
Mr Johnston, a school bus driver, said he ended up in one car comforting a man as he regained consciousness… he’s pretty bad. he’s pretty bad.
Waikato Highway Patrol Sergeant Gilbert Williams appealed to the driver of a southbound car, who had to take evasive action, to contact police.
Mr Johnston said others at the scene did an amazing job, including a veterinarian from VetEnt and an anaesthetist.
Meanwhile, a pregnant woman was flown to Waikato Hospital in the Westpac Waikato air ambulance after the vehicle she was in rolled off State Highway 3 south of Te Kuiti, about 6pm.
Mr Williams praised the quick actions of those who were first to the scene, comforting the injured until emergency services arrived.
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Also last night, a one-year-old boy was seriously injured after being run over by a car in Dominion Rd, Nawton
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New Zealanders will have to pay more to get less under proposed ACC changes announced today.
An average worker will have to pay $300 a year more if the Government passes legislation to cut entitlements.
Employee levies are currently $1.
But if its amendment bill does not pass, the increase in levies advanced by ACC will be even higher. That will increase to $2.5110 per $100 of liable earnings.4889 if Parliament doesn’t accept it.1778 under the amendment or $2.47 per $100 (from $1.
Employers will face an increase of $1.89 if it does not.31) if the legislation passes or $1.28 a year in petrol tax and registration fees to $317.
The cost of owning a motor vehicle will increase by $30.28 without.28 with the legislative changes or $417.
The Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Bill includes a number of cuts in entitlements which ACC Minister Nick Smith said were necessary to reduce ACC’s liability.
The increases to the employer and employee level should be in force by April.
Many of the changes remove entitlements established by Labour last year.
The changes would apply to new claimants – current income compensation would not be cut, he said.
People, and their families, who commit suicide or acts of self-harm, will no longer be eligible for compensation.
Those included compensation for casual and part-time workers which would be calculated to reflect their earnings over the past year rather than past four weeks to prevent them earning more on ACC than when working, reducing compensation for loss of earnings for non-earners from 100 percent to 80 and holiday pay being taken as earnings and weekly ACC compensation not be paid simultaneously.
He would not say whether that was an incentive for people contemplating suicide.
Dr Smith said if someone with a family committed suicide the family could have been given almost $1 million in compensation over time. .
Suicide was tragic but not an accident, he said.
Compensation will also be automatically withdrawn for anyone who convicted of committing a serious crime and imprisoned.
Prisoners currently receive medical treatment and rehabilitation under ACC as part of their care.
Dr Smith said the changes were aimed at cutting ACC’s liabilities by $2 billion and would secure the long-term future of ACC.
“I’m actually reasonably confident that the package that we have announced today is what’s going to be required to fix it (ACC).”
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A battered Shane Cameron has vowed to fight on, speaking of the disappointment of his loss to David Tua but also respectful of his opponent’s power and skills.
Cameron fronted up to the media for the first time since his second round knockout loss to Tua last weekend. He removed them to reveal the damage done by Tua’s wicked combinations that sent him to the canvas three times – both eyes were blackened with his right eye looking particularly ugly.
He came into an Auckland press conference wearing oversized sunglasses. I’m still here ready to go.
But he looked straight ahead and declared: “The important thing for me now is moving forward. He faces a three-month stand down as part of boxing’s rules after suffering a TKO.”
But the reality is Cameron won’t be going anywhere too far too soon. . He will use that time, as planned, to have three plates removed from his troublesome right hand. Buthe got me good in that first round and I never recovered.
“It was a hard loss for me because I came in confident I would win.. He finished me off in the second . what can I say?
“David did the business on the night..You could see the determination in Dave’s eyes to come forward and get me out of there. He’s a tremendous man and a tremendous champion.
Cameron said it was difficult to compare the power of Tua’s punches to his previous 24 opponents as a professional.”
Cameron said he didn’t underestimate or disrespect Tua and said his trash talk before the fight was simply aimed at hyping up the occasion. He has that punching ability and normally he knocks people out with one punch.
“There’s no secret what power David has, that he’s one of the biggest punchers ever.”
Cameron’s camp were taking some consolation in that, almost proud of the number of hits their man had withstood before eventually being counted out seven seconds into the second round. I managed to stay there for a lot more.
His manager Ken Reinsfield believed Cameron would be “one of the few fighters” who could have handled that barrage.
His manager Ken Reinsfield believed Cameron would be “one of the few fighters” who could have handled that barrage.
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Police are searching for any trace of a young Auckland student who mysteriously disappeared last week. .
When he failed to return home by 10pm family members called police.
When the missing man’s family heard of the discovery they visited the marina and uncovered further personal items, including Mr Rayadurgam’s backpack and some items of clothing.
Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said a cyclist had discovered Mr Rayadurgam’s wallet close to Westhaven Marina, St Mary’s Bay, around 8am the next morning.
Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Joe Aumua said the disappearance was concerning as there was “nothing to suggest Mr Rayadurgam was unhappy or unwell”.
Police air sweeps and sea searches have failed to find any clues about the young man’s disappearance.
Anyone with information about the case or anyone who saw anything suspicious around the Curran St end – under the Harbour Bridge – of Westhaven Marina is asked to contact Police immediately.
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Former New Zealand Post team leader
Stephen James Francis Cadigan used to complain about mail thefts while
he was stealing thousands of letters himself.
The hypocrisy counted against him at his sentencing today where Judge Stephen Erber jailed him for 11 months.
Fifty-year-old Cadigan’s eyesight has failed and he is now legally blind.
He had pleaded guilty in June to charges of theft of the postal articles by a person in a special relationship, and two charges of dishonestly using documents – two grocery vouchers he had stolen from an envelope. He had to be guided to the dock in Christchurch District Court by a prison officer for the sentencing.
Cadigan was team leader at the Beckenham branch – at the end of his 35 years of employment with NZ Post.
Judge Erber said he did not believe a home detention sentence was appropriate as a result of the scale of the offending, its impact on so many people, the breach of trust, and the impact on the reputation of the employer, New Zealand Post.
He has admitted his thefts began five or six years ago, but the charge refers to the period from January 1 to May 15 this year when he says he was stealing 20 to 30 items a day. He would open the mail in the men’s toilet, taking cash, vouchers, and Lotto tickets, and 559 of the stolen mail items were later found hidden behind a water-heating cylinder.
He would arrive before the other staff, help unload the mail, and then sort out items to steal.
Judge Erber calculated Cadigan would have taken 2000 to 3000 items over those months. Those items covered only part of the period. Transport to work was provided by the New Zealand Foundation for the Blind because it was outside bus hours.
Defence counsel Carol Morgan said Cadigan had found further work as a labourer, working a graveyard shift.
He was keen to pay reparation and she handed up a $500 cheque from his savings.
He was keen to pay reparation and she handed up a $500 cheque from his savings.
She said the Beckenham branch had been held up as a model, and senior management visiting Christchurch were often taken to see it.
Crown prosecutor Sara Jamieson said NZ Post was seeking $4842 reparation for the cost of the investigation, and another $170 was sought for a direct victim.
“We will never know how much he actually obtained from this offending,” she said. Cadigan was regularly given information about missing mail, and was vocal about how upset customers were when they approached him about lost items.
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A 19-year-old man who tried to strangle a dog before pouring petrol down its throat and bashing it with a spade is appealing his jail term.
Jeffrey Robin Hurring was in February sentenced to 12 months’ jail for killing the 18-month-old Jack Russell terrier. . It was the longest sentence ever given for animal cruelty.
Justice Fogarty said he believed Judge O’Driscoll had referred to an academic paper which said animal cruelty sentences were too low.
Hurring was “clearly affected by his offending” and had co-operated with police, Ms Saunderson-Warner said.
“The question for me at the moment is whether that is right.
“The sentencing judge really decided to step up to the plate and go to a higher level,” he said.”
He reserved his decision.
“It is always difficult for a district court judge to change a level of sentencing when there is a whole line of cases going the other way.
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Two minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over New York’s Hudson River, an air traffic controller was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.
“We got plenty of gas in the grill?” the controller at New Jersey’s Teterbroro Airport asked. . “Fire up the cat.
Nine people – three members of a Pennsylvania family in the plane and five Italian tourists and New Zealand-born pilot Jeremy Clarke in the helicopter – died in the Aug.
According to a draft government transcript obtained by The Associated Press, the two continued to banter until seconds before the private plane collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson.
The transcripts conform with a sequence of events laid out last week by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the accident, although they differ slightly on the exact time events occurred. 8 accident.
The transcripts don’t identify by name either the controller or the other person on the phone, but people familiar with the investigation said the call was to a woman.
Theobtained the transcripts from a source familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to release them and asked not to be identified. They did not identify the employee.
Officials for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the airport, said last week that the phone call, made on a landline that controllers use to contact other parts of the airport, was to an employee a contractor at Teterboro. That call ended 12 minutes before the plane’s, Steven Altman, told the tower he was ready for takeoff.
The bantering began in an earlier phone call, during which the woman discussed how she and another worker had picked up the cat from airport property.
The controller then called the woman back and resumed joking about the cat, which the controller had used binoculars to watch the woman pick up. The controller directed the plane toward the Hudson, handed off responsibility for the plane to close toby Newark Liberty International Airport and gave the pilot the radio frequency to contact Newark.
“Hey, Teterboro, Newark. The bantering kept up until the Teterboro controller was contacted by radio by a Newark controller who was concerned about aircraft in the path of the Piper.
“Say again, Newark,” the Teterboro controller responded
“Can you switch that PA-32 (the Piper)?” the Newark controller said. Would you switch that guy, maybe put him on a two-twenty heading to get away from that other traffic please?” the Newark controller said.
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It will be fascinating to observe Luke McAlister, should he play well and the All Blacks beat Australia tomorrow night.
For now, limited gametime and patchy performances mean he does not exactly reek of confidence. And perhaps that will prove the opportunity he needs to recapture some spark, on and off the paddock.
But with Dan Carter now responsible for steering the team from first five-eighth, moving out to 12 means there is less pressure on McAlister. I can’t think, ‘oh, I haven’t really played much rugby’ otherwise I’ll go into the game with the wrong frame of mind,” he said.
“I’ve just got to go out there and believe in myself and have the self-confidence to do well with the boys. It’s great to be named in the starting XV.
“I’ve done all the training and everything, to give myself that confidence.”
McAlister described the chance to run more from second five-eighth as “one of the perks” of the job, while his strong right boot should complement Carter’s left-foot kicking game nicely. It definitely lifts you and lifts that motivation throughout the week, when you are starting.”
The All Blacks’ last outing, in Durban, where they lost 31-19 to South Africa was characterised by some crazy attempts to run the ball out of trouble.
“It’s the same as the Aussie boys [Matt Giteau and Berrick Barnes] and gives us another option and hopefully we’ll be able to get the ball and Dan will put me in a few holes, which would be nice.
As the All Blacks backs ran drills at training yesterday with assistant coach Wayne Smith, the pack was at the far end of the ground, working on its lineout repertoire.
While “saddened” that the kick has become king in rugby, McAlister said he and his team-mates had to accept it and take a more prudent approach to dealing with that aerial bombardment.
It was teapots all round and the slightly worrying sight of forwards coach Steve Hansen literally having to move players like building blocks to ensure they were standing in the right place. There was plenty of variation but one common theme the ball kept going astray.
Nonetheless, hooker Andrew Hore said he was relatively pleased with how things are progressing. It was hardly the authoritative display you would expect from an elite international team in its last serious hit-out before a test match. . “It always goes well at training, when you’ve got no-one jumping against you and stuff