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  • Taylor better Test skipper than McCullum says New Zealand media

    The New Zealand media has said that the under the leadership of former captain Ross Taylor, the Black Caps Test team had been making significant progress than they are doing under current skipper Brendon McCullum. Six months after Taylor lost the captaincy, Stuff.co.nz reports that under Taylor, New Zealand enjoyed the first Test win in Australia after 25 years, and the first drawn test series ...

  • Northland’s Future Derailed By National Hon Peters Speech

    Speech: Good Ground Real Estate Business Breakfast Venue: Outboards Restaurant, Ruakaka Tavern, WhangareiWednesday 19 June 2013, 7.45 am ...

  • Rich Lister Neville Jordan to launch new fund

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  • Scary runway extension needed pilots say

    Wellington Airport needs to double its planned 300-metre runway extension to include vital safety zones, pilots say. The airport announced in May that it would be seeking resource consent to extend the airport by 300m at a cost of $300 million to attract long-haul flights to the Wellington region. But the New Zealand Airline Pilots Association says Wellington's overshoot safety zone is ...

  • Lundy appeal Expert blames computer virus for disordered files

    Mark Lundy. Photo / Mark Mitchell A forensic computer expert says a virus was the reason why files on the Lundy family computer were out of order - rather than the allegation that Mark Lundy tampered with the machine to create a false alibi. The last person to use the computer was Christine Lundy who turned the machine off in her Palmerston North home at 10.52pm the night before she ...

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Changing Lanes

The title of Changing Lanes comes from a crucial incident that takes place on the FDR expressway in New York: Two men, both of whom are desperate to get to the courthouse for different reasons, change lanes at the same time and crash into each other. One leaves behind the other, who finds that he is holding a crucial file folder that literally holds the first man's life in the balance. And ... ...

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  • Brian Rudman Give public voice in game of I Spy

    The Governments legislation being pushed through without public debate broadens the rights of New Zealand spy agencies to snoop on New Zealanders and foreigners alike. Photo / Mark Mitchell With spies lurking along each twist and turn of the internet, busily scribbling down every dot and dash of information that whooshes past, perhaps it's time to heat up the sealing wax. For less ...

  • Vehicles slide off road after diesel spill on SH29

    Motorists driving over the Kaimai Ranges in Bay of Plenty are being urged to take extra care this morning, after a large amount of diesel spilled onto the road. The spill on State Highway 29 begins near Soldiers Rd on the Tauranga side and extends over the ranges and down towards Matamata. Police said the surface was extremely slippery and several vehicles had already slid off the road as a ...

  • UPDATE 1-New ZealandAustralia Morning Call-Global markets

    -----------------------(06:33 / 2033 GMT)----------------------- Stock Markets S&P/ASX 200 4,814.35 -11.53 NZSX 50 4,462.10 ...

  • Worlds rich get richer – latest wealth report

    Subscribe to NBR Print or NBR ONLINE paid content and be in to win the all-new BMW 320i xDrive Touring valued at $83,800 For the first time in New Zealand, the BMW 3 Series Touring is now available with BMW xDrive, the world's most sophisticated all-wheel drive system. Based on the award winning 3 Series Sedan, the Touring is set to raise the bar once again, starting from just $77,800* ...

  • While you were sleeping optimism lifts equities

    Wall Street advanced amid optimism that US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will reassure investors that the central bank will not pull back its monetary stimulus before it is satisfied with the economic outlook. In late afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.83 percent and the Nasdaq Composite ...

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