Bail refused
A man accused of robbing Paihia's 70-year-old town custodian has again been refused bail. Dillon Jos Taituha, 31, appeared in the Kaikohe District Court on Tuesday charged with aggravated robbery of the Focus Paihia employee on April 8. He also faces charges of kidnapping and robbery arising from a separate incident on the same day, and unlawfully taking a ute from Waiwera on March 26. Taituha was remanded in custody until July 26 for a case review hearing.
Weather record
A balmy June day in Kerikeri matched a record high for the winter month that dates back to 1945. The town recorded the extreme winter temperature of 21.3C on June 1 equal to the previous warmest day on record for last month. Kerikeri was the only location in the region to feature on the June extreme temperature table. Dargaville experienced its second-highest wind gusts clocked at 106km/h on June 13. As expected, the winterless north failed to feature on any extreme low temperature, snow and ice data tables.
