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Failed property developer Ritesh Mani must pay $750,000 to supplier, court orders

New Zealand Blog News Service Jan 1, 2026

Twice-bankrupted Ritesh Mani’s Eco-Smart Homes owed more than $750,000 to a supplier.http://dlvr.it/TQ60TH

Election 2026 a toss-up as Luxon India deal, AI revolution reshape economy – Richard Prebble

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 31, 2025

OPINION: My forecasts for the year ahead.http://dlvr.it/TQ5H4z

Holiday blues make for quiet end to NZX year – Market close

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 30, 2025

NZX’s 2025 performance trails 2024 but is up 3% for the year.http://dlvr.it/TQ4RTx

Deep Blue

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 28, 2025

Television, 1995 Setting sail across the South Pacific, Deep Blue follows a 10-month voyage through remote and wild…

Gull, NPD merger should bring fuel prices down with low-cost business model – AA

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 28, 2025

The merged NPD-Gull group would control about 240 fuel sites nationwide.http://dlvr.it/TQ2qNs

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

ODT quiz: January 7 January 6, 2026
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Wednesday, January 7.
Gang links provided inmate with ‘security in the prison setting’ January 6, 2026
Tawera Johnson told the Parole Board he wanted to be released to a residential rehabilitation facility. PHOTO: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER A samurai sword-wielding Dunedin man who left his victim scarred for life says he has forged gang links in prison for security.
Rob Kidd
Japanese coming-of-age ceremony to be held January 6, 2026
University of Otago Japanese student Maria Miya, 20, does some calligraphy while her peers Naoki Kozakai (left), 18, and Shion Hashimoto, 20, watch yesterday. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN University of Otago exchange students are celebrating a Japanese coming-of-age tradition that is more than 1300 years old.
Mark John
Alliance well positioned, departing Wiese says January 6, 2026
Outgoing Alliance Group chief executive Willie Wiese addresses a roadshow meeting in Mosgiel in October last year. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Alliance Group chief executive Willie Wiese is leaving after nearly three years in the role, temporarily replaced by his Irish counterpart.
Sally Rae
Canterbury R&D firm placed in liquidation owing $940k January 6, 2026
A Canterbury-based research and development company — spun out of Lincoln Agritech — has been placed in liquidation owing an estimated $940,000.
Sally Rae
Motel continues to trade January 6, 2026
Trevor Laing. PHOTO: ODT FILES A Dunedin motel continues to trade while the director of the company that operates it endeavours to have the liquidation it was placed in terminated.
Sally Rae
New Bills must avoid RMA complexity January 6, 2026
Resource management reform has some desperate lessons to learn, Bernard Jennings writes.
Summer School in full swing at university January 6, 2026
University of Otago Summer School students Caitlin Proctor, 21, and Thomas Boyte, 19, make the most of a sunny Dunedin day and study outside on the Union Lawn. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Some University of Otago students have cut their summer holidays short to get ahead in their degrees.
Mark John
Spot of tennis at smoko January 6, 2026
PHOTO: CLAUDE MORRIS. MS-4174/018/022, HOCKEN COLLECTIONS UARE TAOKA O HAKENA Staff playing tennis at the factory court of the New Zealand Wax Vesta Company in Caversham in 1936.
Valuable lessons in court oddities January 6, 2026
The Dunedin Courthouse. PHOTO: ODT FILES Court reporting can be a sordid, sobering business, but these stories stood out to court reporter Felicity Dear for their uniqueness, ironies and life lessons.
Felicity Dear

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