Il Bordello brothel in Wellington - like an "all-you-can-eat" restaurant.
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A reader writes:
"Why do real estate agents advertise houses as Pandora's Box? I hesitate to provide free advertising, but a Titirangi land agent has described a house as containing all the evils of the world. Looks like a nice house, perhaps she's referring to the vendors."
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A cricket lover writes: "Gee thanks Sky. We pay all this money each month but when it comes to the final two overs of what turned out to be the most exciting finish of the Twenty20 series (West Indies vs England) you cut us off, presumably because it was 8am and you thought the match would be over by then. How about a refund?"
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The teacher who complained about slow processing times at the Ministry of Education is not alone. "I, too, am still waiting to be put on my full rate of pay and continue to work long hours dealing with extremely obnoxious and entitled teenagers for $28,000 a year ... Less than what I was getting on the DPB a few years ago."
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A Swedish artist caused a bomb scare when he tied bunches of carrots together with black tape, attached blue and red wires and a clock to them and put them at 15 places around the city of Orebro, as part of The Bunny Project art installation. They had been in place for only an hour when police received their first call. The police said it was "inappropriate"; the artist said it was a harmless caricature of a bomb. (Source: BBC.co.uk)
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The "well-informed reader" obviously has a procedure-based HR mentality, says one of their peers. "While the regulations may be as he/she has stated, when new employees joined the government department I worked for, I made sure our payroll staff checked to ensure the person starting would not be going more 10 days without some form of payment."
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Wuthering Heights, which screened on TV One on Sunday, was made this year, not in 1998 as suggested in yesterday's first edition of the Herald by the Westmere reader, who has erred for the first time.
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View today's Herald cartoon
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