Behind the scenes, government agencies, local MPS and unions have been working up to two years to help find a new buyer and keep the mill s 210 skilled staff in the region. However, in March, workers began preparing for the worst when the mill announced it was closing in June because its parent company was taking its work elsewhere.
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The Detail explores why the wood processing industry is under stress and why New Zealand continues to send so many raw logs to China without turning them into something more valuable. One of the two unions involved, First Union, welcomed the news and the benefits it could bring.
Staff stand outside the car park at Dunedin Central Countdown on Wednesday. The police forensic examination, which was largely focused near the supermarket s pharmacy, concluded on Tuesday night. Police tape preventing access to the car park was removed on Wednesday morning. The car park remained off limits to media as a large of number of staff gathered outside the store on Wednesday morning. Countdown did not give a specific opening time.
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A blessing was held for about 50 staff. Senior police also attended. “Our focus now is on helping make sure our team’s return to the store is as peaceful and as healing as it can be, and we would ask both the public and the media to respect our team’s privacy as they do this,” spokeswoman Kiri Hannifin said.
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ED clinical director Dr Richard Stephenson, Superintendent Paul Basham and nursing lead Janet Andrews at a media briefing on Tuesday about the stabbing incident at central Dunedin Countdown.
The brother of a prison guard stabbed in the neck during a rampage at a Dunedin supermarket wants to thank the “hero” who saved his life. A Corrections Officer at Otago Corrections Facility and his wife, believed to be a Customs employee, were among four people who received serious knife wounds during the attack at Countdown Dunedin Central on Monday afternoon. It is believed the man was stabbed in the neck, while his wife was stabbed in the back.