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This is your only warning
Northland Age

This is your only warning

Northern Principal Rural Fire Officer Myles Taylor could just about recite his standard warning that extreme care must be taken when the Far North's fire risk begins to rise, but he might be giving that a rest this coming season.

Editorial, Tuesday October 6, 2015
Northland Age

Editorial, Tuesday October 6, 2015

AUSTRALIA can hardly be criticised for deporting convicted criminals, New Zealanders included. For all that we claim to have a special relationship with Australia, we can hardly claim the right to go over there, beat people up and rob them and expect to b

Lifelong memories of a smoky car
Northland Age

Lifelong memories of a smoky car

Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox will accept support for her battle to eliminate smoking in New Zealand by 2025 from wherever it comes, and she was delighted to accept a petition in Kaitaia yesterday calling for a ban on smoking in cars with passengers un

Keep the flag - change the PM
Northland Age

Keep the flag - change the PM

It wasn't the biggest protest ever in the North, but those who converged on Kaitaia's market on Saturday morning to air their opposition to the process of potentially adopting a new national flag certainly made themselves heard.

Police swoop on kauri gum stash
Northland Age

Police swoop on kauri gum stash

Police last week seized thousands of dollars worth of kauri gum from a massage parlour in Whangarei. Banana boxes, fish bins and sacks filled mainly with pieces of unpolished gum were found during a search of the Scarlet Lounge on Tuesday.

Waiting game for He Korowai
Northland Age

Waiting game for He Korowai

Kaitaia's He Korowai Trust is awaiting the outcome of an Internal Affairs process aimed at determining whether it can retain its charitable status, and continue the work it is doing to provide low-income Far North residents with homes of their own.

Bequest rescues St Catherine's
Northland Age

Bequest rescues St Catherine's

The sting was taken out of a public meeting called by the Waimate North Mission District management group at Okaihau on Friday when it was announced that a proposal to transfer ownership of St Catherine's Church at Okaihau was unlikely to proceed.

Expert assistance for Te Aupouri
Northland Age

Expert assistance for Te Aupouri

Evan Nathan, a former regional manager for the Department of Labour, has been appointed as the interim manager for Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board, whose job will be to help to facilitate the transitioning of the board's activities to the Aupouri Runanga...

Athletes relish muddy conditions
Northland Age

Athletes relish muddy conditions

The Far North Zone Cross Country was held at Peria School on Friday, September 4, following a very wet and windy week which made the course suitably muddy much to the delight of the young participants as they slid and waded their way through the event. Re