Palmerston North (New Zealand)

Type: City
Name: Palmerston North (New Zealand)
Country: New Zealand
Latitude: -40.349998
Longitude: 175.610001
population: 75,997
First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Driver fights for life after crash

A motorist was last night fighting for his life after narrowly avoiding decapitation when the van he was driving slammed into a one-way bridge, north of Tikokino, yesterday.The 27-year-old, believed to be from Palmerston North, was in a critical condition ... [Published Hawkes Bay Today - 21 hours ago]
First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

'Softly, softly' best approach

OPINION:But the Palmerston North City Council should not feel the need to second-guess its "softly, softly" approach.Obviously, what might work for the capital doesn't necessarily work for our city. But it's also difficult to see how such a hardline stance ... [Published Manawatu Standard - 15 hours ago]
First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

MP: 'Revisit drug laws'

Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway wants Parliament to consider decriminalising cannabis while discussing legislation to regulate legal highs."What we know is that prohibition causes more harm than good," he told the . "It should be science and not ... [Published Manawatu Standard - 19 hours ago]
First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Labour's promise to lower power bill

Topics: david shearer, manawatuHave your say »UNITED FRONT: Labour leader David Shearer and Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway spoke about the party's promise "to make a difference in people's lives".Labour will lower power prices for individuals ... [Published Wanganui Chronicle - 23 hours ago]
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports
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Cannabis an election issue

As the debate over "legal highs" continues, a Palmerston North activist is calling for the public to be made aware of the "huge" benefit to the country's economy from legalising cannabis.Bob Smith* has written to Parliament explaining the benefits of ... [Published Wanganui Chronicle - May 23 2013]
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Truckie's compensation bid rejected

A truck driver's bid for compensation over his sacking has been turfed out by the Employment Relations Authority.Murray Faulkner worked as a driver for Menefy Trucking Ltd until his dismissal on May 6, 2012, which he claimed was unjustified.A recent authority ... [Published Manawatu Standard - May 23 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Extremist denies any racism in leaflet drop

The leader of a right-wing "anti-communist" political party has defended a pamphlet drop in Palmerston North, saying it wasn't spouting racist rhetoric.Massey University third-year finance student Phillip McNamara, 21, received a leaflet in his letterbox ... [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

The making of Joe Blossom

He was in one of Manawatu's most-acclaimed bands of the 1990s, but managed to get bored of music. Jono Galuszka discovers how a Waituna West country boy found his writing mojo, cured a man of the common cold with his music and became The Bloss.To say ... [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Research Conducted at Massey University Has Updated Our Know. . .

Research Conducted at Massey University Has Updated Our Knowledge about Environmental MicrobiologyEnvironmental MicrobiologyNewsRx.comBy a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Ecology, Environment & Conservation -- Current study results on Environmental ... [Published Equities.com - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Things from days gone by

In the first of the 's weekly series "What I Do", Faye Lougher talks to Bert Inteman, owner of a quirky antique and secondhand shop in Palmerston North.Bert Inteman looks around the shop he has owned and run since 1981, and spreads his arms wide."It's ... [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Graduate exercises business know-how

A UCOL postgraduate student has started up a group-oriented community health initiative for overweight individuals in the Manawatu District.Jonathan TeRauna, a UCOL student studying towards the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Exercise Physiology, Level ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Training takes firefighters to the limit

Palmerston North's former Longburn freezing works has become the site of a five-storey building collapse as emergency services trainees battle their way through a three-day search and rescue exercise.A team of 24 firefighters and six paramedics are in ... [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]

Quotes

"But I still think I would like to see some objective view of both sides of the argument, if that's possible."
Mayor wants ministry to review fluoridation stance [Published Manawatu Standard - 19 hours ago]
"What really frustrates me is that the middle-class experience of marijuana is what the debate is all about when those it really affects are disadvantaged in every way."
MP: 'Revisit drug laws' [Published Manawatu Standard - 19 hours ago]
...heading north on State Highway 50 towards Napier when it lost control and hit an abutment," said Sergeant Paul Ormerod of the road policing group. "There is extensive damage to the cab. It's amazing he didn't have his head decapitated." Members of the public had managed to remove the injured man from his mangled vehicle before emergency services arrived...
Driver fights for life after crash [Published Hawkes Bay Today - 21 hours ago]
"This is a two-speed economy but we have young people hollowing out these provinces. Approximately 100 state service workers have lost their jobs here in Palmerston North and this is wide-reaching for provincial areas" Mr Shearer warned
Labour's promise to lower power bill [Published Wanganui Chronicle - 23 hours ago]

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'Softly, softly' best approach [Published Manawatu Standard - 15 hours ago]
Judith Collins: Address to Ethnic People In Com... [Published Scoop - 17 hours ago]
Mayor wants ministry to review fluoridation stance [Published Manawatu Standard - 19 hours ago]
MP: 'Revisit drug laws' [Published Manawatu Standard - 19 hours ago]
Driver fights for life after crash [Published Hawkes Bay Today - 21 hours ago]
Labour's promise to lower power bill [Published Wanganui Chronicle - 23 hours ago]
Double celebration for farmers [Published Otago Daily Times - May 23 2013]
'Farmy Army' leader honoured for quake aid [Published New Zealand Herald - May 23 2013]
Early Childhood Council annual conference begin... [Published Scoop - May 23 2013]
Cannabis an election issue [Published Wanganui Chronicle - May 23 2013]
Truckie's compensation bid rejected [Published Manawatu Standard - May 23 2013]
Kiwis sign up for space flights [Published Otago Daily Times - May 22 2013]
Extremist denies any racism in leaflet drop [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
The making of Joe Blossom [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
Research Conducted at Massey University Has Upd... [Published Equities.com - May 22 2013]
Inside justice [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
Things from days gone by [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
Embrace diversity, denounce hate [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
Distance learner awarded French Embassy Medal [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 22 2013]
Graduate exercises business know-how [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 22 2013]
New graduation gowns 'reflect New Zealand' [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 22 2013]
Training takes firefighters to the limit [Published Manawatu Standard - May 22 2013]
Tribute to Joshua Bennie gone [Published Hawkes Bay Today - May 21 2013]
$86,000 buys well-bred heifer [Published Manawatu Standard - May 21 2013]
Officers honoured for Pike River, quake and bal... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 21 2013]
Town revamp plans pleasingly plain [Published Manawatu Standard - May 21 2013]
Hot kitchens and hot action for UCOL students (... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 21 2013]
Hot kitchens and hot action for UCOL students [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 21 2013]
Recognition given at investiture ceremony [Published Manawatu Standard - May 21 2013]
Vet students reveal all for charity [Published Dominion Post - May 21 2013]
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