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Saturday night at Red Fox: A tragedy remembered 33 years on
12 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The Red Fox Tavern near Maramarua where publican Chris Bush was murdered in 1987. Photo / Jason Oxenham
The Red Fox Tavern near Maramarua where publican Chris Bush was murdered in 1987. Photo / Jason Oxenham Bill wondered about getting out of bed to mow the lawns but thought no, bugger it, they could wait. He was comfortable. He d woken up at 7 and read for a while, then went back to sleep. In the afternoon, he watched The Scarlet Pimpernel, a 1982 adventure movie set in the French Revolution. It was all right even though it went on for three hours with commercials. Bill, who rented his bach from a dairy company, lay in bed all day. He worked hard with timber during the week and it was a Saturday. Besides, he liked things quiet. It suited his personality. He was a softly spoken man, 41 years old, and kept out of people s way.
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Whanau from the Ngati Whatua Orakaei marae walked in a hikoi from their marae to the Auckland High Court “The Crown wants to and has decided to transfer those two sites to a group of five tribes who are domiciled predominantly in the Coromandel-Thames area to settle their treaty grievances with the Crown,” Blair said. “The Crown not long ago in 2012 signed a Treaty settlement deal with us, which among other things, apologised for how we’d been treated by the Crown over the last 180-odd years, which they were very sorry for, and they will work towards a better relationship now,” he said.
Harnek Singh is a Punjabi talkback show host at Radio Virsa in Papatoetoe, south Auckland.
Six men have appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of an Auckland radio host.
Harnek Singh was left in critical condition and needed surgery after he was assaulted outside his home on Glenross Dr, in Wattle Downs, on December 23. Jagraj Singh, Hardeep Singh Sandhu, Jobanpreet Singh, Sarvjeet Sidhu, Jaspal Singh and Gurbinder were charged earlier this year with his attempted murder, and appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday in front of Justice Simon Moore. They all previously had name suppression but that lapsed on Wednesday.