27-Jan-2012 09:41
By Marcus Lush
The premier of the New Zealand movie Two Little Boys, which was supposed to happen in Southland, has been delayed because one of the stars Bret McKenzie is up for an Oscar and will be going to the ceremony.
The Dunedin City Council is trying to get its money back from the company that built and designed the sea wall at St. Clair, as it's a disaster. Let's hope that the councils tender process was more rigorous with the stadium.
The police chief Peter Marshall has a blog – who knew – in it he wrote about the three police that wore identical ID tags in the Occupy Aotea eviction. He said “I hope it isn’t true, but if such stupidity did occur, give me strength”.
Ngai Tahu has had a whole lot of greenstone illegally bound for china returned to them.
A reward of $2,500 has been posted for evidence or information leading to the capture of the Timaru cat killer. The cat was called smudge – a hedgehog was also killed in an unpleasant way.
Some more tickets for the rugby sevens go on sale today. Maybe the gloss has gone off that event? I think not, though – I think they are corporate packages that are spare – expect them to sell very quickly.
The Herald is reporting a budding relationship between Sonny Bill Williams and the daughter of Matthew Ridge, called Jaime.
It looks like Ports of Auckland plan to build a carpark on the waterfront to store Japanese imports. This will help make the harbour invisible to Aucklanders.
And Jamie Oliver is crowing as he has managed to persuade McDonald's to stop using a meat product that he calls "pink slime". I don’t know if that product is used in New Zealand.