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Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele has attacked news media for claiming tsunami aid to his country was being misused.
He challenged media to go to the scene and see for themselves.
But as he made the claim Porirua College’s head of Pacific Studies has questioned what happened to aid they gave to tsunami damaged villages.
“The only stories you are sending overseas are bad, unfounded stories.
According to the Samoa Observer, Tuilaepa said there were many “under-educated journalists” in Samoa.
He denied aid relief rorts were taking place and challenged the media to go and see. I urge your journalist association to form a special council to rule the reports by these boys and girls who write these make up stories,” the prime minister said.
“Stop relying on statements from the government.
He blamed the rain for delays in aid reaching the damaged southern coast. You go see,” he said.
“Some houses are up.
“The rainy season is here, the people fixing roads should look at fixing roads because of the dirt,” he said. . But others should begin this week.
The principals of both colleges cancelled planned trips and went shopping to spend funds on buying kitchenware necessities, such as knives, forks, plates, bowls, bush knives, pots, saucepans, and food.
The principals of both colleges cancelled planned trips and went shopping to spend funds on buying kitchenware necessities, such as knives, forks, plates, bowls, bush knives, pots, saucepans, and food.
“We were about to distribute the materials, to about 10 or 12 families when a senior government official arrived and asked us to take our donation to their village council committee who were allocating gifts to the village,” Aliimuamua wrote.
They travelled to Lalomanu to give it to the worst affected village.”
Their gift was not distributed however.
“We told him we would like to give our cash money to the Red Cross for distribution, but he was very convincing that the best way to go about distribution of our meaalofa (gift) is through the village committee, which we didn’t mind in the end.
“He hesitated as if not sure of anything and said, ‘Some materials have been given to the victims, but not the money, we are waiting until all donations had been received before we dish it out to the victims and then thanked everyone in the newspaper and let us know’.
“When I left on 12th October, I met the government official at the airport, I asked him if they had distributed our meaalofa, so far we haven’t heard of what happened or had seen any report in the paper about it.
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Aliimuamua said they “hope that our gifts have been distributed already to all the Lalomanu families of tsunami victims as we wanted to help them
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A Masterton man who achieved a degree of fame through a near-death experience last year was today convicted of assaulting his former partner.
John Edmonds’ heart stopped beating for 25 minutes after a collapse in November.
After his recovery he fielded requests to share his story from a United States radio show, an author and the New York Times.
He was now a illness beneficiary, and the only way he could make money was by capitalising on the interest generated by his survival, she said.
At sentencing in Wellington District Court today, lawyer Louise Elder pressed for Edmonds to be discharged without conviction.
But Judge Stephen Harrop said Edmonds had three previous convictions dating back to 1986, including one for assault.
A conviction could prevent him travelling to interviews or speaking engagements overseas. .
He was also convicted of intentional damage to his former partner’s paintings and fined $1200 reparation.
He convicted Edmonds and sentenced him to six months supervision for assault with intent to injure and fined him $500 in emotional harm reparation.
The pair were getting along until Edmonds received text messages from one of his former partners, Judge Harrop said.
On August 5 this year, Edmonds had visited the home of his on-again off-again partner Sarah Alexander, 33, an amateur artist.
She snapped the phone – which Edmonds had borrowed – and this made him snap as well, Judge Harrop said.
Ms Alexander asked to look at his phone and was annoyed to see who the messages were from.
“You got very angry and you punched one of her paintings two or three times.
“You got very angry and you punched one of her paintings two or three times.”
Ms Alexander told police Edmonds had kicked her about four times in the legs as she collapsed under his blows.
“You then punched her a number of times in the head and face.
She said Edmonds was a high profile member of the community and other cases like his were heard every day and went “entirely under the radar”.
Edmonds’ lawyer, Ms Elder did not hide her contempt for “the press”, telling the court a Wairarapa Times-Age interview with Ms Alexander following the attack, which ran on the front page, had been “a huge punishment in itself”.
Since his heart attack, Edmonds could no longer work in the fitness industry and was now a illness beneficiary, she said.
It had a huge impact on Edmonds, and his teenaged children had received a barrage of text messages “which destroyed them”, Ms Elder said.
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Judge Harrop noted a discharge without conviction was opposed by police and by Ms Alexander who, in her victim impact statement, said she felt “gutted” by Edmonds’ continued denial of what happened and the lack of an apology
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Three New Zealanders have been confirmed as killed in the Pacific tsunami, with another presumed dead and grave concerns held for two others.
The only New Zealander so far identified isMary Ann White, 54, of Raglan, whose family was trying last night to get her body home.
The injured are being accompanied by six family members, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said. .
Acting Prime Minister Bill English said earlier today that three Britons and two Germans who were also injured would also be evacuated.
They are expected to arrive at Auckland’s Whenuapai Airport early tomorrow morning and will then be transported by a fleet of ambulances to local hospitals for treatment.
There were initially reports that a two-year-old Auckland boy had been officially identified as one of those killed.
The confirmed death toll from Wednesday’s tsunamis, caused by an 8 magnitude undersea quake, stood at 149 in Samoa, 31 on American Samoa and nine on neighbouring Tonga.
The toddler was swept out to sea as he was playing on the beach with his parents at Lalomanu when the 6m wave came ashore on Wednesday. This is incorrect, and it is understood he remains missing, presumed dead.
MFAT earlierconfirmed it was providing support to the toddler’s parents. His parents swam to safety.
The husband and wife, originally from Britain, now live in Auckland.
They were taken to hospital yesterday with minor injuries and later discharged and are staying at the New Zealand High Commission in Samoa. Tsunami warnings were given and they were trying to escape to higher ground when the waves struck. The family was holidaying at a resort close to the village of Lalomanu.
GRAVE CONCERNS
MFATsays grave fears are held for two New Zealanders who had been staying at the Taufua Resort, Lalomanu.
Plans are underway to medi-vacinjured New Zealanders on a RNZAF plane to New Zealand as soon as possible.
However, the Martin family of Wardville, outside Matamata, was this morning preparing to fly out to Samoa in search of their two daughters who flew to Samoa on Monday for a holiday. The ministry has not released details of the pair.
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The sisters, Petria, 22 and Rebecca, 24, were holidaying with their cousin, a Hamilton travel agent and her friend, and had been due back tomorrow
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MPs found guilty of serious criminal offences will lose their travel perks, a decision sparked by Taito Phillip Field’s recent conviction for corruption.
The former Mangere MP was last month found guilty of bribery and obstruction of justice after being found to have accepted work on properties in return for immigration assistance.Under the Electoral Act, an MP convicted of serious criminal offences must vacate their seat.An amendment to the rules would require MPs convicted of serious criminal offences to give up their travel privileges, Speaker Lockwood Smith announced today.However, they are not required to give up travel entitlements available to former MPs .”I have followed a process that included consultation in arriving at my final decision.”I felt it was appropriate that the travel privileges of former members be stopped where someone was convicted of an offence that would require them to vacate their seat in Parliament,” Dr Smith said. .The decision would apply to travel entitlements available to former MPs who entered Parliament before 1999.The amendment was expected to take effect by the end of next month, Dr Smith said.He could also have claimed a 90 percent discount on international travel, as long as it did not exceed the cost of a return business-class flight to London on Air New Zealand – about $10,000.Having entered Parliament in 1993, Field could have claimed up to 12 free domestic return air fares a year.
.Former MPs have come under fire for the ir travel expenses after they were revealed last month
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Police have launched an investigation into allegations of sabotage and assault at a Waikato cheese factory where a pay and contracts dispute between workers and management is turning increasingly dirty.
Open Country factory union members have been barred from returning to the Waharoa plant by management while an inquiry into alleged sabotage of factory equipment by a worker is investigated.The Dairy Workers Union members have been trying to return to work this week at the end of an eight-day strike but the company is refusing allow them on the premises. .It was too risky to allow the striking employees back to work until a police investigation had sorted out who was guilty for the alleged sabotage, he said.Factory chairman Laurie Margrain claimed that just before the industrial action started, somebody had loosened fittings, turned off valves and altered pressure gauges.”They’re presenting themselves for work and we’re paying them,” he said.But workers who did turn up for their shift were being sent home on full pay, he said.Mr Margrain said a disgruntled employee was behind the dumping.Police are also investigating an allegation of sludge dumping from the factory into close toby the Waitoa River.But Dairy Workers Union national secretary James Ritchie said untrained workers hired by the company during the strike had released the sludge into the Waitoa river, causing environmental damage.