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Rodney Crack, left, was pleased to return the first aid kit and diary of World War II soldier Ernest Kennedy to his daughter Pam Wild and her husband Graham at Otautau on Saturday. Crack bought both items at an auction recently.
Rodney Crack’s search to find relatives of a World War II soldier, so he could return the serviceman’s diary and first aid kit to them, ended in Otautau on Saturday. Pam Wild, the daughter of serviceman Ernest William Kennedy #378052, 2/NZEF, 1939-45; and her husband Graham Wild drove from their home in Queenstown to meet Crack and be given the items on Saturday.
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Pirates-Old Boys player Cory Hoffman-Grey, left, eyeing up the Marist players about to tackle him during the Southland premier club rugby game at Surrey Park. But it was the way Pirates-Old Boys won on Saturday which would have sounded some alarm bells around the premier division. Marist had just come off a victory over Woodlands but by halftime against Pirates-Old Boys found itself trailing 19-3. It was extended to 26-3 early in the second half through second five-eighth Desmond Spooner’s second try of the day, before Marist finally started to halt the Pirates-Old Boys onslaught. The visitors scored two tries to Michael Moodie and Allan Gillies to bring it back to 26-15 and provide a glimmer of hope for the Marist faithful in attendance that a comeback victory was a possibility.
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The site was part of 1,194 hectares of Māori land taken under the Public Works Act in 1910 for the Tokanui Hospital, Maniapoto Māori Trust Board Chair Keith Ikin said. “This was by far the largest public works taking in the Maniapoto rohe and was strongly opposed by Maniapoto.
Waikato Times “The Crown has acknowledged that acquisition of the land was a Treaty breach,” Ikin said. This settlement was unique as it was the first to require the Crown to remediate a property before it was made available for purchase. He said a process would be triggered in five tranches as site remediation works were completed to get the land back to a rural use standard.
Among the hardest hit will be Gorge Road [19 per cent or $387 increase]; Nightcaps [18 per cent or $430 increase]; Stewart Island [18 per cent or $344; Orepuki [17 per cent or $197]; Tuatapere [17 per cent or $431]; Ohai [17 per cent or $387] and Tokanui [17 per cent or $330]. At the other end of the scale, Thornbury faces an average four per cent, or $64 increase, Browns a five per cent increase [$88], and Woodlands a 6 per cent increase [$98]. Ohai resident Asha Carr said she believed the council was tone deaf to propose such high hikes for many people, given some were already struggling financially and with stress due to losing jobs during Covid.