Punters will soon be able to enjoy bright lights and loud bangs as Whangārei's annual Fireworks Spectacular returns. The event run by the Whangārei Lions Club is being held on Saturday, November 3 with gates at Okara Park opening at 6pm. There will be live entertainment before the fireworks display, which will start when it gets dark. If the weather is bad and the fireworks can't go ahead, the event will be held the following day. Tickets are $5 for schoolchildren otherwise $10 or $25 for a family of two adults and two children or one adult and three children.
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A fully laden logging truck rolled trapping the driver on a private forestry road in Northland yesterday. Police confirmed the truck crashed on Ruapehu Rd in a forestry block about 30km northwest of Dargaville at 12.10pm. Volunteer firefighters from Dargaville Station were called to the scene to help with the extraction of a trapped person, who was then flown to Whangārei Hospital with moderate injuries.
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An elderly man was kicked in the head by a cow and admitted to Whangārei Hospital before his condition deteriorated this week. Emergency services said the man, aged in his 70s, subsequently needed urgent attention. The Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to transfer the man to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition on Thursday at about 5.30pm. A report prepared by Worksafe in 2014 said many people were hurt by cattle every year, mostly when cattle kicked or crushed them. Some injuries were serious, such as broken bones, and people have been killed. Older farmers, especially those aged over 65 years, and children were most at risk of injury.
