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Prep talk: Baseball players help San Marino’s football team start 6-0 https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1021034/ #BaseballPlayer #BaseballTeam #BasketballPlayer #day #Football #FootballTeam #GoodAthlete #Jones #majority #MatixFrithsmith #OtherSport #practice #PrepTalk #SanMarino #season #southland

https://www.europesays.com/3271873/ Pair charged with murder of young child in Southland #CrimeAndJustice #NewZealand #southland

https://www.europesays.com/3269873/ ‘Touches of winter’ to bring wet, windy start to school holidays #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #HawkeSBay #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

https://www.europesays.com/3269873/ ‘Touches of winter’ to bring wet, windy start to school holidays #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #HawkeSBay #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

https://www.europesays.com/3266898/ Cold snap brings snow to South Island roads, gales and frost ahead #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews #WestCoast

https://www.europesays.com/3256628/ South Island roads reopen after spring snow dump #ChristchurchCanterbury #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

https://www.europesays.com/3241318/ South Island’s largest wind farm opens after $600m investment #Energy #NewZealand #southland

https://www.europesays.com/3234874/ Southland Gas Prices Rise for 18th Consecutive Day #18th #consecutive #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #OilPrice #Petroleum #prices #rise #southland

New Zealand records third warmest winter on record https://www.byteseu.com/2336620/ #auckland #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #ManawatuWanganui #NewZealand #northland #southland #TaurangaBayOfPlenty #WeatherNews #wellington

https://www.europesays.com/3230931/ Bridge reopens following quakes in lower South Island #earthquakes #NaturalDisasters #NewZealand #southland

Major Otago road to stay closed overnight as snow storm strikes south https://www.byteseu.com/2323315/ #DunedinOtago #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

Cutter Stewart returns from junior college ranks, leads Houston Christian past SE Louisiana 34-28 https://www.rawchili.com/5083380/ #CollegeFootball #CutterStewart #event_recap #Football #HoustonChristianHuskies #Ja'RyanWallace #JamaalHallII #KeithWheeler #KyleLowe #LawsonDixon #ncaa #NcaaFootball #NCAAF #SoutheasternLouisianaLions #Southland

Cutter Stewart returns from junior college ranks, leads Houston Christian past SE Louisiana 34-28 https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/985152/ #CollegeFootball #CutterStewart #event_recap #Football #HoustonChristianHuskies #Ja'RyanWallace #JamaalHallII #KeithWheeler #KyleLowe #LawsonDixon #NCAA #NCAAFootball #SoutheasternLouisianaLions #southland

Winter storm shuts South Island highways, avalanche risk climbs https://www.byteseu.com/2312603/ #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews #WestCoast

Hundreds still without power as storm, grid fault hit lower South

Hundreds of customers remain without power across the lower South Island after two separate events — a national…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #NationalGrid #dunedin-otago #southland #weather-news
https://www.europesays.com/britain/109080/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/109080/ Hundreds still without power as storm, grid fault hit lower South #DunedinOtago #NationalGrid #southland #WeatherNews

✅ Resolved: Internet disruption detected in Southland, New Zealand — observed 2026-08-23 01:00–01:56 UTC (56m) (source: IODA). https://partially.online/?country=NZ #PartialyOnline #NewZealand #Southland #Disruption

Internet disruption detected in Southland, New Zealand — Significant Disruption — ongoing since 2026-08-23 01:00 UTC (source: IODA). https://partially.online/?country=NZ #PartialyOnline #NewZealand #Southland #Disruption

New and upgraded weather warnings as fronts bring wind and rain https://www.byteseu.com/2297211/ #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #marlborough #nelson #NewZealand #southland #tasman #WeatherNews #wellington #WestCoast

Shawn Hatosy on ‘The Pitt,’ Calls for a Night Shift Spinoff and Projects That Got Away — Including ‘Breaking Bad’!
#TV #TVNews #AnimalKingdom #AwardsChatter #JohnWells #NoahWyle #ShawnHatosy #Southland #ThePitt

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/shawn-hatosy-the-pitt-night-shift-spinoff-breaking-bad-1236676193/

https://www.europesays.com/3195868/ Snow warnings for alpine passes, rockfall shuts Gisborne highway overnight #auckland #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #HamiltonWaikato #HawkeSBay #ManawatuWanganui #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

Details of bids to help struggling Fiordland airport under wraps https://www.byteseu.com/2274365/ #NewZealand #Politics #southland

‘Couple of degrees colder’: Severe frosts to grip New Zealand tonight https://www.byteseu.com/2252944/ #auckland #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #gisborne #ManawatuWanganui #NewZealand #northland #southland #TaurangaBayOfPlenty #WeatherNews #wellington #WestCoast

https://www.europesays.com/3175895/ ‘Couple of degrees colder’: Severe frosts to grip New Zealand tonight #auckland #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #gisborne #ManawatuWanganui #NewZealand #Northland #southland #TaurangaBayOfPlenty #WeatherNews #Wellington #WestCoast

Sleet and snow hit Wellington, Dunedin police issue ice warning https://www.byteseu.com/2251151/ #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

https://www.europesays.com/3172458/ Cars slide off roads as cold snap brings snow to Christchurch, Dunedin #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

https://www.europesays.com/3172458/ Cars slide off roads as cold snap brings snow to Christchurch, Dunedin #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #NewZealand #southland #WeatherNews

Orepuki or Aropaki - Town & District Schools, Class Photos from 1920-1942

Orepuki or Aropaki - Town & District Schools, Class Photos from 1920-1942:

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Photo 1 - Orepuki School class, taken c1939 to 1941; Sepia Tone Class Photo of 26 children. Known pupils are: Shirley Alison Lee, at left of front row; Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald in front row 2nd from right; Neil McAllister is fifth in from left in second row. And if you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or pop the names in a comment

Photo 2 - Orepuki School pupils outside the School "War Memorial Gates", but no year; Sepia Tone Photo of school children with the school behind the gates. Known pupils are: Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald in second row from front and 4th from right. If you recognize anyone from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or pop the names in a comment

Photo 3 - Orepuki School class, taken c1941-42; Black & White Photo of 28 children. Known pupils are: Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald later Higgins in the front row 6th from left or 4th from right and she was born March 1931. We have been told that its likely to be Shirley Lee in the second row first on the left, by her daughter (Shirley appears to have been born September 1930, so these names fit the date). If you recognize anyone from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or comment with names.

Photo 4 - Orepuki School class, taken c1937; B & W Photo of 30 children. The known pupils are: Elsbeth (Betty) May Macdonald later Higgins in the back row first on left. If you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or comment with the names.

Photo 5 - Orepuki School class, taken we think in the late 1930's; B & W Photo of 30 and 1/2 children (should be 31, but sadly 1 is half chopped off on right!)
It is thought that the girl in the striped jacket on the right in the back row may be Myra Hogg (she was born in 1931) & Raymond George Herrick (born 1928) is said to be in the front row third from left by his own daughter, so we will presume this is correct. These dates do fit presumed year for photo. If you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please do get in touch, or put the names in the comments section.

Photo 6 - Orepuki School Class, taken 1920; B & W Photo of 23 children; The known pupils are: Doris May Finn later Macdonald in the back row second from right. We have also been told that the child in the middle row on the far right is Bessie Butler later Lee. If you recognize anyone else from your family or if you have a named copy of this photo, please get in touch or comment.

The school at Orepuki (or originally Aropaki) has a varied and extremely interesting background, as does the township, more of which can be read in the early history written further below.

Formerly a large gold town, after that had dried up and coal mining was overtaken by the Nightcaps companies, along with the Shale Works closing in 1902, most of Orepuki ended up deserted. It became only the farming community that stayed on to support the township in its fight for survival.

Of course, the school was also affected, as it was downsized considerably. It somehow struggled on over the years though and stayed open. Over the 1-4 of Feburary 1934, is when the Orepuki School had its 50th year Diamond Jubilee. We would love some photos of this event, do you have any that you can contribute to our Community Archives of this event?

The newest Orepuki School was not built until 1968 and it was erected directly behind the old school that was moved there prior, then the old building was then taken down. From this point on, children in the Orepuki township and district could attend their local school only up until the old Standard Four, at which time they had to then bus to the Aparima College in Riverton, which had the old Forms 1-7. For many years the Orepuki School, which somehow managed to carry on, continued to contribute its students to Riverton’s new Aparima College. But in 2003 the school at Orepuki was finally closed.

But this did not end the controversy over getting children from Orepuki to school safely. In 2017 it was reported that plans to move the school bus stop had been withdrawn, after Aparima College, Riverton ...
Central and Western Murihiku Southland Archive via DigitalNZ

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#Settlers #Murihiku #Pioneers #Southland #Farming #EarlyTravel #School #Education #OrepukiOrAropaki #GarfieldAnd #Gold #Mining #Railways #ShaleWorks #OtagoEducationBoard #SouthlandEducationBoard #Nightcaps #Aparima #Churches #TownHalls #TimberMilling #SchoolBuses #Waiau #MacdonaldFamily #Orepuki #OrepukiSchool #ClassPhotos #WesternSouthland #LongwoodsDistrict #Goldfields #Classmates #DigitalOnlyImageInArchive #CentralAndWesternMurihikuSouthlandArchive

https://www.europesays.com/3157472/ ‘A giant dating game’: Where councils stand as merger deadline looms #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #gisborne #HamiltonWaikato #HawkeSBay #marlborough #Nelson #NewZealand #Northland #southland #tasman #TaurangaBayOfPlenty #Wellington #WestCoast

https://www.europesays.com/3157472/ ‘A giant dating game’: Where councils stand as merger deadline looms #ChristchurchCanterbury #DunedinOtago #gisborne #HamiltonWaikato #HawkeSBay #marlborough #Nelson #NewZealand #Northland #southland #tasman #TaurangaBayOfPlenty #Wellington #WestCoast

https://www.europesays.com/3156979/ ‘Traumatic experience’ at cemetery due to drainage issues #NewZealand #southland

‘Nowhere is immune’: Experts urge quake readiness after two in a week https://www.byteseu.com/2227775/ #Earthquakes #ManawatuWanganui #NewZealand #southland

‘On fire’: Mum’s antibiotics warning after being struck by MRSA superbug

A global study has found New Zealand doctors are using too many antibiotics, risking the growth of superbugs.…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #AU #Australia #Health #southland
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/818727/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1104407/ ‘On fire’: Mum’s antibiotics warning after being struck by MRSA superbug #Health #Healthcare #southland #UK #UnitedKingdom

Locals question $3bn AI data centre being built in their backyard https://www.byteseu.com/2209559/ #business #NewZealand #southland #Technology

Waiau River - photos of Whitebaiting and the river mouth in decades past, c1980s

Whitebaiting, Waiau River and Waiau Mouth. This is what the whitebaiting scene at the Waiau River looked like in 'the season', many years ago now. This series of images, recently donated to the Community Archive, were used to commemorate the new 2024 Whitebaiting season. The new 2025 season starts today on 1 September. We wish all whitebaiters on our river a safe, successful season, and encourage the environmental protection of these taonga, so future generations can also enjoy whitebaiting as we do.

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Photo 1 - whitebaiting on the Waiau River at the mouth, in days past
Photo 2 - some of the whitebaiting caravans parked up at Waiau River
Photos 3 - scenes of the Waiau River at the Waiau mouth in days past
Photographs by Ron McDowell & kindly donated to CWA. Licensed CC BY

WHITEBAIT:
The Department of Conservation or DOC, summarises what we know as 'Whitebait, as being, "the juveniles of six species of fish, five of which are migratory galaxiids: inanga, banded kōkopu, giant kōkopu, kōaro and shortjaw kōkopu. The sixth species is common smelt." Doc further inform us that the whitebait caught locally from the Waiau River, are predominantly inanga. These are "found in a wide variety of habitats, from tiny creeks, to coastal rivers, lowland streams, lakes and wetlands." Inanga are small and most only survive a year or so, reaching about 100mm in length – the longest one found on record, was 190 mm.

"Because they are poor climbers, inanga are usually found near the coast. Their silvery belly and somewhat forked tail make them easy to distinguish. Found in places as far flung as Chile, Australia and Argentina, inanga are the most widely distributed native freshwater fish in the world," records DOC. They are also Aotearoa New Zealand’s most commonly caught species of whitebait. But as well as this, their population is in decline. Almost all of the Whitebait species are either in decline or threatened, hence new restrictions on catching them. If we want future generations to be able to carry on our tradition of whitebaiting, we need to preserve this previous taonga/treasure.

Whitebaiting is a favourite cherished sport and time-honoured tradition in many parts of the country, and especially at the Waiau River Mouth. Local's have whitebaited here for generations, and can tell tales of times when the beach stretched all the way along Bluecliffs, with road access and parking. In recent times the Waiau Mouth has eroded into the sea, taking a lot of land with it, forever changing the landscape of the river mouth and whitebaiting.

But the landscape at the Waiau Mouth is not the only thing that has now changed. To help protect these taonga or treasured fish species and their habitats for the future, there is now a shorter season and more set rules. For 2024 on the Waiau River in Western Murihiku Southland, the season ran between September 1 & October 30, with whitebaiting only permitted on those days between 5am to 8pm, or 6am to 9pm during daylight savings. The 2025 season is also running from 1 Sept to 30 October.

Now, each person can only have one whitebait net operating at any given time, and this must be attended at all times. The mouth of the net is not allowed to be wider than 4.5 meters. Also, you cannot fish by structures like bridges, culverts, even river junctions. This is to protect these vulnerable fish stocks. If everyone follows the rules, we can all help maintain a healthy river ecosystem, and ensure that whitebait can continue to thrive for the future.

The new regulations which have recently been put into place, are being enforced in a joint effort between Police and DoC. All whitebaiters were notified and encouraged to educate themselves on the new rules and regulations ahead of the 2024 season. It was pleasing to read in a news article from this year, that a patrol of the Waiau River in an effort to ensure adherence to the new regulations, undertaken in late August 2024, there were no reported violations of early whitebaiting. However, there were some later violations of the rules which restricts nighttime whitebaiting.

WAIAU TRUST WHITEBAIT HABITAT:
This project has a focus on the creation of rearing habitats for whitebait, which in turn, helps a diverse range of wildlife which reside or migrate to this coastal environment. According to the Waiau Trust's website (see more in Place Notes), "Adult fish spawn in vegetation at the margins of tidal wetlands and streams, during spring tides in the months of February to April. The fertilised eggs...
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#Murihiku #Southland #Hunting #GreatOutdoors #WaiauRiverMouth #TeWaewaeBay #WildFoodGathering #SouthWestCoast #WaiauDistrict #WaiauRiver #Whitebaiting #Waiau #WaiauMouth #Fishing #Whitebait #Erosion #CoastalErosion #WhitebaitHabitat #Galaxiids #Inanga #WaiauTrust #SouthCoast

‘Boom, everything started moving’ – Te Anau resident on quake https://www.byteseu.com/2203295/ #DunedinOtago #Earthquakes #NewZealand #southland

Tsunami warning downgraded after Fiordland quake revised to 5.9

The tsunami warning issued after a strong earthquake near Te Anau has been downgraded to an advisory, after…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #dunedin-otago #Earthquakes #southland #TopNews #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/803813/

Orepuki or Aropaki (Garfield, Hirstfield) - Town & District Schools History, 1910-1930

Orepuki or Aropaki (Garfield, Hirstfield) - Town & District Schools History:

The school at Orepuki (or originally Aropaki) has an interesting background, as does the township. In 1872 the first school in the area was established, and ended up being run under the name of Garfield-Orepuki School, in the newly moved township of Garfield. The Otago Education Board who were the oversight for the new school at Orepuki, used its “difficult and remote location” to justify not visiting the school to do the usual reports on the building and teaching.

The roll in the beginning was just 16 children, but by the time the first year was out, the roll stood at over 30 students, and kept growing steadily from its opening date. This made the school itself too overcrowded and unsuitable and it was to be rebuilt twice – the first time four years after it opened, when the original building was turned into the schoolhouse for accommodation of teaching staff. As it was one of the first of many buildings eventually erected in the township, many district events were held on the site and in the building, which doubled as a public hall, dance hall, and even a church.

The second school also proved inadequate, and it was replaced again by a much larger three roomed affair, but this was not to remain where it was either, even though it was the last building to be moved from the Garfield site. Fascinatingly, miners ended up digging a rich vein which led them right to the School Reserve in the Gully. The school land plus that of the whole township was mined, after a resolution was reached with the Education Board for the miners to pay to move the school!

By 1874 a School Committee was formed, in line with the requirements of the Education Act. This was made up of the following men: Chairman, D Hunter; Secretary, JL Currie; plus - J Callaghan, H Creasey, R Cupples, TH Devonshire, AJ Jolly, FH McLean, and R Riddle.

An interesting news report from 1882 tells us the school was closed (again!) and that this was a regular occurrence over the last three years. More details emerge about the rain “driving in through the windows like a shower bath”, leading to all the children having to be moved away from the back. It was also noted that there was a current contract let for repairs to the schoolhouse at this time.

After Garfield was demolished by gold mining, the school was forced to relocate to the third and final resting place of the ever moving local township, which came about from its closeness to the local coalmining works and the 1885 railway connecting the two. After the railway opening, the newly erected town of Orepuki was to grow and prosper beyond all belief over the next 20 years with around 3,000 people living there at the height of its existence. By 1900 there was a huge township, which necessitated the continual enlarging of the local public school. The photo shown here is of the old school after it had got its 3 room extensions built.

But after the gold dried up and coal mining being overtaken by the Nightcaps companies, along with the Shale Works closing in 1902, most of Orepuki became deserted again. It became only the farming community that stayed on to support the township in its fight for survival. Of course, the school was also affected, as it was downsized considerably. It somehow struggled on over the years though and stayed open. Over the 1-4 of Feburary 1934, is when the Orepuki School had its 50th year Diamond Jubilee. We would love some photos of this event.

The newest Orepuki School was not built until 1968 and it was erected directly behind the old prior moved school. The old building was then taken down. From this point on, children in the Orepuki township and district could attend their local school only up until the old Standard Four, at which time they had to then bus to the Aparima College in Riverton, which had the old Forms 1-7.

For many years the Orepuki School, which somehow managed to carry on, continued to contribute its students to Riverton’s new Aparima College. But in 2003 the school at Orepuki was finally closed. But this did not end the controversy over getting children from Orepuki to school safely. In 2017 it was reported that plans to move the school bus stop had been withdrawn, after Aparima College, Riverton Primary School and Waiau Area School had agreed to leave the current stop where it was.

But then in 2018 there was continued angst from the residents about plans to move the school bus stop yet again. W...
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#Settlers #Murihiku #Pioneers #Southland #Farming #EarlyTravel #School #Education #OrepukiOrAropaki #GarfieldAnd #Gold #Mining #Railways #ShaleWorks #OtagoEducationBoard #SouthlandEducationBoard #Nightcaps #Aparima #Churches #TownHalls #TimberMilling #SchoolBuses #Waiau #DigitalOnlyImageInArchive

Ōtautau - Township Businesses- Central Garage, Froude's Ownership, March 2020

Prior to the current owners today (2022) Central Garage was owned by Graeme & Shirley Froude, father of present owner Keith Froude and his wife Thelma. The family have owned the garage since 1973.

These photos were taken by myself (the digitising archivist of this new community heritage project) and they were snapped during the first Covid Lockdown in early 2020 to show the effects of the pandemic on the local businesses in Ōtautau. I felt it was important as a community historian and archivist, to preserve the events of the pandemic for future generations to observe the changes in life for us all. I always say that today's events are tomorrow's history so thought I had better practise making sure that I collected as much as possible of it. I note as the garage now sports a lovely sunshine yellow paint, all the Covid posters strangely compliment the bright colour palette of the building!

Of note, as someone who worked in the vicinity of this building for around 6 years, usually the doors are open and the yard is full of vehicles being serviced. As the Covid Lockdown only allowed for "essential services" to remain open, many businesses including this one saw a large downturn in work and customers, although in rural areas like ours, this was less, due to the continuing necessity of maintaining the agricultural industry, which our district and town heavily relies on.

It is of note that this building has one of the oldest histories of any in the township. The site started off as the towns very first General Store in 1876, run by Robert Campbell for many years. It has now been made into a Motor Garage for most of it's long life, with a range of different names and owners. More can be seen about this in a prior entry on its history under CWA.159.105.010 so look out for this that.

Some of the earlier owners and garage names are recalled by Peter Campbell, a grandson of one of the town's early residents as being:
JH Thomas & Co
Norman Guise
Bob Buchanan
Western District Motors
Tom Milburn
Frank Hazlett
George McMillan
Jack Anderson
R (Bob) L Thomson
Bill Ireland
And finally the Froude family it is still currently owned by.

Information above is researched by and copyright under a CC BY Licence to “Between River & Stream”, early history of Ōtautau book, and is kindly gifted by that project to our online community archive so everyone can view it.

This account will definitely be added to, as we have had quite a few people from the district continue to donate quantities of photo and record documents to the archive, which we are extremely privileged to have been gifted to share with you all. Time constraints alone at this moment, have prevented all of these from being shared right now.

However, if you or anyone you know has got any more photos, information or accounts of this building, the varying Motor Garages run from here over the years, or on any aspects of business or community life that has taken place here, make a comment in the space provided under the image page. Please let us know if you have more records to add to these, so we all benefit. Kia ora, thank you.
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#Settlers #Agriculture #Murihiku #Pioneers #Southland #Fuel #MotorGarages #GeneralStores #TransportOrVehicles #DigitalOnlyImageInArchive

Burning throats and persistent headaches: What life is like in #LosAngeles neighborhood plagued by a weeklong #WarehouseFire

By Cindy Von Quednow, 6/24/2026

"The #BoyleHeights community has been left reeling since the persistent blaze at the privately owned cold-storage warehouse broke out June 17, sending smoke throughout the #Southland and residents seeking refuge indoors as efforts continue to extinguish it. "

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/us/boyle-heights-la-fire

#AirQuality #AQI #SmokePollution #California

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #Southland #BenMcKenzie #ShawnHatosy Netflix’s 5-Part Crime-Thriller Masterpiece Is Finally Finding the Audience It Deserves http://dlvr.it/TT0nPM

Environment Southland is batting for the wrong team.

In July 2025 Gore's Coopers Wells water supply was shut down due to seriously high nitrate spiking. This ODT story outlines the lengths the regulator's staff went to in their determination to deflect suspicion away from dairy.

The ES science manager Karen Wilson has tarnished her credentials by saying that "no cause was found for the spike."

This aerial image shows intensive dairy right next door to the wells.

Wilson is also deeply involved in the subsequent cover-up.

Environment (it's in the name) Southland no longer seems fit for purpose.

https://archive.ph/0K8fl#selection-1427.1-1427.124

#NZ #Dairy #Environment #Southland #Nitrates

Southland Hospital is losing both of its urologists. This means patients from Southland will need to travel to Dunedin, where there's already a shortage of urologists.

Health NZ is making the usual soothing noises... 'our focus is on patients' while doing nothing practical to sort the problem.

Who remembers Luxon claiming that National's massive cuts to the health service wouldn't affect front line operations? Because urology is as front line as it gets.

https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/urologists-exit-puts-southland-crisis

#Southland #Hospital #NZHealth #NZPol

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Crime #Southland #TheCloser 7 Crime Shows That No One Remembers but Are Worth Rediscovering http://dlvr.it/TRPdm5

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #Southland #ShawnHatosy #Crime Now Is the Perfect Time to Revive This Hit 5-Part Gritty Crime Drama Cancelled Way Too Soon http://dlvr.it/TR5P0R

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #Southland #TNT #ShawnHatosy This 'Pitt' Star's "Raw and Authentic" Crime Drama Just Became Even Easier To Binge in Its New Streaming Home http://dlvr.it/TQZn97

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Netflix #RizzoliIsles #Southland 3 Netflix Shows You Need to Binge This Weekend http://dlvr.it/TQXBRN

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #2000s #Southland #Brotherhood 9 Great 2000s TV Shows That No One Remembers http://dlvr.it/TQV2SS

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #Southland #ReginaKing #BenMcKenzie Cancelled by Original Network, the Greatest Crime Drama Series You’ve Never Seen Is Heading to Netflix http://dlvr.it/TQ7xhq

Netflix January 2026 Schedule: New Movies & TV Shows

Link: https://film-book.com/netflix-january-2026-schedule-new-movies-tv-shows/?fsp_sid=119350

#Bridgerton #Brüno #DespicableMe #FallingSkies #LoneSurvivor #Netflix #ProdigalSon #Southland #StarSearch #StreamingNews #TheFollowing #TheRip

Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #Southland #ReginaKing #BenMcKenzie TNT’s Greatest Crime Drama Officially Returns Next Month — But There’s a Catch http://dlvr.it/TQ1kbj

Lucy Liu Enters a Risky New Chapter: “I Need to Own My Worth”
#MovieFeatures #Movies #AllyMcBeal #Anora #CharliesAngels #DemiMoore #Elementary #KillBill #LucyLiu #Southland

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/lucy-liu-enters-a-risky-new-chapter-rosemead-1236428808/

Yesterday I got to go to #TeHikoiMuseum which is one of the more detailed sources that @ExhibitExplorer uses. I highly recommend it.

It tells the story of the history of the area, from both a Māori and Pakeha perspective, then a combination.

#Riverton #Aparima #Southland #Murihiku #AotearoaNZ

High school football top performers in the Southland https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/492591/ #catch #Football #GoldenValley #henderson #KoryHall #liberty #LosAngelesTimes #MikeHull #nev. #NewburyPark #southland #td #thursday #TylerHennessy #win #yard

How the Southland’s top 25 high school football teams fared https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/488570/ #aquinas #aug. #Chaparral #CoronaCentennial #def #Fla #Football #HighSchoolFootballTeam #jserra #SantaMargarita #saturday #score #sept. #southland #thursday #YorbaLinda

How the Southland’s top 25 high school football teams fared https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/473723/ #aquinas #aug. #Chaparral #CoronaCentennial #def #Fla #Football #HighSchoolFootballTeam #jserra #SantaMargarita #saturday #score #sept. #southland #thursday #YorbaLinda

Greenpoint Ship Graveyard is the southernmost point on our planet I have ever been to. It’s near Bluff in South Island in New Zealand. The site has been used as a dumping ground for decommissioned and derelict ships since the late 19th century.
#oceania #newzealand #southland #bluff #greenpoint #shipgraveyard #shipwreck #maritime #history #rust #coastline #seabirds #landscape #travel #photography #fotografia
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Gemstone Beach is about 70km NW of Invercargill, on the road to Te Waewae Bay and Tuatapere. It's famous for its colourful stones. Sapphire and garnet have been found on the beach.

Now a Queenstown dude called Michael Reedy has applied for a 10-year mining permit over 47ha of the beach. Locals are not amused.

"I don’t think one man should have that power over a tourist destination that brings money to our area."

The applicant insists there won't be any diggers or trucks.

"Mr Reedy said it was a non-mechanical operation and he would be walking up and down the beach looking for high-quality sapphires and gemstones.
"It won’t even include a spade. It will be just me and a bucket, walking down the beach."

If that's the case, why does he need an "exclusive" mining permit when he can already remove stones just like everybody else?

https://archive.ph/nTKrO

#GemstoneBeach #Southland #Mining

A sovereign citizen from Southland thought he'd get off paying rates and penalties by hurling false accusations at a Court Registrar, accusing them of being paid to change documents.

Describing the allegations as "outrageous and slanderous", the Judge rightly threw out the case.

The SovCit who calls himself “living man: david-john: of the house wilson” has a month to decide if he wants to lose all over again in the Appeal Court.

https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/appeal-shut-down-after-outrageous-slanderous-claims

#SovCit #Southland