July 2025

High Country

New Zealand Blog News Service Jul 6, 2025

Television, 1980, (Full Length) Roving musterer Jocko (Bruce Allpress) rides into a heap of trouble in the pilot…

Lease termination for unused Three Waters Auckland office costs taxpayers $2.2m

New Zealand Blog News Service Jul 6, 2025

DIA’s Sale St office housed the Three Waters programme until March 2024.http://dlvr.it/TLmVFm

I have been left out of my father’s will what should I do? – The Ex-Files

New Zealand Blog News Service Jul 5, 2025

OPINION: I would prefer not to go through the court system so what are my options?http://dlvr.it/TLlrF0

Newshub – Live at 6pm – Final Episode (5 July 2024)

New Zealand Blog News Service Jul 3, 2025

Television, 2024, (Full Length) In April 2024 media conglomerate Warner Bros Discovery confirmed the closure of the Newshub…

Tourism Holdings forecasts $27m-$34m profit amid US market challenges

New Zealand Blog News Service Jul 3, 2025

The business says it may need to make a goodwill impairment on its US assets.http://dlvr.it/TLk5HH

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
Ben Uffindell
Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
Ben Uffindell
Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
Ben Uffindell
Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
Ben Uffindell
Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
Ben Uffindell
NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
Ben Uffindell
Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
Ben Uffindell
Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
Ben Uffindell
National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
Ben Uffindell
Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
Ben Uffindell

Young competitors fine-tune confidence on stage July 20, 2025
In fine voice at SongFest’25! yesterday are (clockwise from top left) Kahurangi Makiha, Max Smith, Poppy Hussey, Holly Hamilton, Mackenzie Dunnicliff, Rishi Shantapriyan, Yulia Wood, Kahurangi Potae-Tamatea and Lucy Appleton (centre). PHOTOS: GERARD O’BRIEN Hits from Miley Cyrus, Adele and Queen filled the air at the weekend as young singers blew "the back off the […]
Tim Scott
University unfazed by dwindling donations July 20, 2025
The University of Otago is brushing off another dramatic drop-off in donations to its Foundation Trust, saying donors continue to seek other ways to contribute.
Matthew Littlewood
Lab should be open seven days: widower July 20, 2025
Dunedin man Sam Weepers protests outside the Dunedin Hospital every weekend to highlight his family’s concerns about the operating hours of the hospital’s cath lab. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON A grieving widower is vowing to continue a campaign to improve access to the Dunedin cardiac cath lab after his wife’s death.
Laine Priestley
Record sale proves a hit as event continues to grow July 20, 2025
Courtenay and Shiloh Butler hunt for a bargain at the fifth Dunedin Record & Pop Culture Fair held at Pearl Diver yesterday. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Music fans and bargain hunters alike filled a Dunedin bar to the brim for the latest outing of a record and pop culture fair yesterday.
Tim Scott
Buy cycle July 20, 2025
PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Student Lily Frieswyk picks up one of the 50 "pre-loved" bikes for sale at Friday’s Te Oraka Social Club bike market and repair workshop, which took place at the St David St end of the University of Otago campus.
Transported to idyllic world July 20, 2025
NZSO principal oboe Robert Orr. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Sublime Schubert, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre, Saturday, July 19.
Student performers wear hearts on sleeves July 20, 2025
Trinity Catholic College students Anamika Jones and Joseph Kelly perform The Bardchelor during Theatrefest on Saturday. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN A Dunedin secondary school’s theatre group has placed Shakespearean women in a Gen Z world.
Mark John
Flying into the sunset July 20, 2025
PHOTO: IAN GRIFFIN The Latam Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flight from Sydney to Santiago passed above Dunedin yesterday.
Well-read deaconess reaches 100 years unshackled July 20, 2025
Dunedin’s newest centenarian Nora Calvert celebrates her 100th birthday, at Ross Home in North East Valley, yesterday. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN The Rev Nora Calvert’s secret to making it to 100 years old might be a life unencumbered by a husband or child, her niece says.
Mark John
Clean bill of health for Addison’s bunny July 20, 2025
PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Addison Newton, 3, is full of trepidation as her rabbit is checked out by Charlotte Wollstein at the Teddy Bear Hospital at the Hunter Centre in Dunedin on Saturday.

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July 2025

High Country

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I have been left out of my father’s will what should I do? – The Ex-Files

Newshub – Live at 6pm – Final Episode (5 July 2024)

Tourism Holdings forecasts $27m-$34m profit amid US market challenges

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