Two teens were airlifted to hospital after separate incidents three minutes apart yesterday at Auckland s Piha and Muriwai beaches
Two teens were airlifted to hospital after separate incidents three minutes apart yesterday at Auckland s Piha and Muriwai beaches 2 January 2021
At the peak there were 11 thousand people at the region s 22 patrolled beaches.
Surf Lifesaving Northern Region operations manager Alan Gibson says they rescued eight people.
He says they also carried out 800 preventative actions across the day - which involved more than four thousand beach-goers.
Two teens were airlifted to hospital after separate incidents three minutes apart yesterday at Auckland s Piha and Muriwai beaches
Two teens were airlifted to hospital after separate incidents three minutes apart yesterday at Auckland s Piha and Muriwai beaches 2 January 2021
At the peak there were 11 thousand people at the region s 22 patrolled beaches.
Surf Lifesaving Northern Region operations manager Alan Gibson says they rescued eight people.
He says they also carried out 800 preventative actions across the day - which involved more than four thousand beach-goers.
Steve Braunias: 2021 is all downhill and summer is our first reward
31 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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OPINION: Let the good times roll. All year last year we were waiting for 2020 just to pack its bags and get the hell out of town, and now that great day has finally arrived. Already things feel better, brighter with promise, lighter with each passing hour. 2021 is set to be the year of sweet relief.
Yeah, okay, unless the plague returns. But while it s true it could strike at any moment - this very second, even; crazy to think you can completely and utterly seal the jar of New Zealand s borders – how many of us are worried about it to the point where we can even be bothered with the QV scan?
Whanganui Year in Review, April 2020: A month locked down
30 Dec, 2020 03:30 PM
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Police had checkpoints around the region to prevent people travelling over the Easter Break. Photo / Alan Gibson
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Ethan Griffiths
April 1
April 1 might have marked the beginning of a new month, but for Kiwis, it was just another day attempting to come to terms with life s new reality.
New Zealand was in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown for most of the month of April, and with that came a dramatic rise in the use of internet across New Zealand.
On April 1 the Chronicle reported that the use of fibre internet in Whanganui shot up a whopping 75 per cent in less than a week, with most of the city locked up inside playing video games, watching Netflix, or working from home.