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Transport body wants RWC day off for schools

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Central Auckland schools are being urged to have a "teacher-only" day on September 9 to get children off the streets and help avoid traffic chaos on Rugby World Cup kick-off day. Auckland Transport says it is calling for time out to

smokers face street ban

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson and Martin Johnston Auckland Council bosses will consider banning smoking in central-city streets and at bus stops. Photo / Thinkstock One of New Zealand's major employers is looking at refusing to hire smokers, and Auckland Council

Discount wi-fi zone to be ready for Cup visitors

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson The Auckland Council says its partnership with service provider Tomizone will expand a discount wi-fi network in time for it to be used by Rugby World Cup visitors. The partnership was announced on the same day as the council revealed

Demand speaks volumes for service

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Courier John Forbes delivers books to be sorted and sent to libraries. He may soon receive help from a robot. Photo / Richard Robinson The Super City's library policy of "borrow anywhere, return anywhere" has proved so popular that a

Police take public transport to watch for liquor breaches

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Officers will use trains and ferries to get from outer city bases to Eden Park and then return. Photo / Steven McNicholl Auckland public transport users will have uniformed police officers sitting next to them during the Rugby World

Field of dreams turnsinto boggy disenchantment

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Thousands of young Aucklanders have had their dreams of scoring a goal on the football field shattered by a run of game cancellations because of soggy sports fields. Auckland mother Judy Bradley is exasperated by her 13-year-old son

Google News: Mildred H. (nee, Knudson) Russ

[Wausau Daily Herald] - Survivors include her children, Shirley (Reinhold) Wunrow, Janet Hickey, and Mary Pavelec, all of Wisconsin Rapids, David Kleiber, Mass, Mich., Ruth Russ, Milwaukee, Patricia (August) Kurth, Casa Grande, Ariz., Sharon (Wayne) Thompson, Wausau

Checks rule out instability as cause of fatal rockfall

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Engineers inspecting Saturday's fatal rockfall on Auckland's North Shore have found no large-scale instability of the seacliffs between Rothesay Bay and Churchill Rd reserve. In a report to the Auckland Council, geotechnical engineers

Suffrage memorial to stay

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson The suffrage centenary memorial will stay at its present site in Auckland - despite pressure to replace it with a wide staircase from Lorne St to serve the upgraded Auckland Art Gallery. Auckland Council's culture, arts and events

Park off-limits while rats exterminated

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson A helicopter will start dropping tonnes of poison rat baits at Shakespear Regional Park tomorrow in a bid to create a haven for rare birds. Visitors to the coastal park on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, a 40-minute drive from

Flipping happy about St Kilda skate park

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[Port Phillip Leader] - “This is meant to be a family-friendly park - a skate park or bowl is not family friendly.” St Kilda's Wayne Thompson, a long-time skate park supporter, said he was over the moon. > > Are you happy that the skate park will be built at Marina Reserve?

Serial burglar snared by eagle-eyed witnesses

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[Birmingham Mail] - Cy Natabus was seen acting suspiciously at the property in Portway Road, Oldbury, by Tracey Galbraith and Wayne Thompson, and they kept him under observation before he was arrested by police officers. Judge Nicholas Webb ruled the two witnesses had

Armed police give guests an early call

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Armed police were called to the Dalma Court Motel in Henderson at 8am. Photo / Natalie Slade Guests at a West Auckland motel were roused from their beds yesterday as police tried to arrest a man hiding in its roof.

Keen interest in single-story, flat section homes

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Wayne Thompson Forget the hilltop perch or the bush gully gazer - flat sites for building single-level homes are hot in a resurgence of buyer interest in Auckland's sections for sale. Desire for them is such in coastal Rodney that one canny
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