Reader J. H. Pirie from Waitakere is getting mixed messages about how to get rid of his garden rubbish. He writes: "Six weeks ago one of my neighbours dobbed me in to the Waitakere City Council for burning some garden waste. An official duly turned up and told my wife to pour a bucket of water over the ashes, which were now cold. The official informed my wife that my small backyard burnoff was against some council bylaw. But what confuses me is, in the Western Leader this month a MAF ad appears with a list of of vegetation control rules for the silly season, to reduce the risk of spreading the painted apple moth. The first rule says "bury, compost or burn your green waste on your property or take it to an approved disposal site."
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The train operator Connex has provided many excuses for delays, including mechanical failures and hiccups with track-switching devices, but on Tuesday a late afternoon train from Swanson to Britomart came to a gentle, unscheduled stop while staff moved a mother cat and her newborn kittens from the track and laid them safely in the grass before resuming the journey.
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Cheese crime: An 18-year-old Memphis woman mistook a block of white cheese for a cocaine stash. She tried to hire a hit man to kill four men who had the cheese and steal it. But the hit man was an undercover cop. The young woman, who is an aspiring model, told the hit man she needed money to pay a modelling agency. The officer taped the conversation and police say they have her saying any children old enough to testify must be killed as well.
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More cheese crime: From the Columbia newspaper the State regarding fugitive Rodney Dane Higginbotham, wanted for criminal domestic violence. Police said Higginbotham argued with his wife because she had not cooked dinner. When she began cooking, he started making spaghetti while eating crackers and squeeze cheese. They argued, and he squeezed cheese on the kitchen floor. She squeezed the cheese on his truck, and he squeezed the cheese in her hair before fleeing in his truck. (Source: News of the Weird)
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