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Absolutely heartbreaking tragedy.
Boy slipped from classmate’s grip in cave and was swept away
https://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/300874455/boy-slipped-from-classmates-grip-in-cave-and-was-swept-away
Indeed. It reminds me of the Cave Creek tragedy. Imagine sending your kid off to school, to their death. It’s horrific.
TMP are so fucked now! With Meka trying to claim some kind of moral high ground when she quite clearly doesn’t have any morals, going against the constituents of ikaroawhiti mandate and wishes or vote. Without them she has nothing!
This is her own ego and bs she is doing this for. There is no mana in her grandstanding with, ‘it’s all about me’ korero. She obviously hasn’t heard the saying about the Kumara ay?
‘The Kumara doesn’t sing/talk about it’s sweetness’.
I think she needs to go back to the Kohanga and skool up on humble pie.
What do kumaras talk about?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/489589/waste-not-want-not-hamilton-cracks-down-on-construction-rubbish
Hamilton City Council did something simple but radical in their 2019 Waste Management and Minimisation bylaw. The council made it mandatory for anyone applying for a building consent to submit a site waste plan…
A site waste plan must outline the different types of construction or demolition waste generated by a site, and how they are going to be dealt with.
The plan also requires the principal contractor to record what actually happens to the waste and report back to the council, explaining if it differs from what was estimated and planned for.
There is currently only one other council, New Plymouth, who also have this requirement…
“A lot of the construction companies are designing out waste at the beginning of their plans, rather then having the waste go to landfill at the end.”
Smart, effective!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018889357/lives-treated-lightly
New Zealand is relying on a generation of young apprentices to up tools and take on a sea of construction work. Are workplaces keeping them safe on the job?…
The Detail takes a look at New Zealand’s cavalier attitude to workplace safety, talking to WorkSafe’s CEO Phil Parkes, and AUT professor of construction management John Tookey…
One instance:
Aimex – Marine & Industrial Engineering
Aimex Service Group
https://www.aimex.co.nz
New Zealand’s leading shipbuilder, ship repair, marine and industrial engineering firm based in Nelson. Services include heavy diesel mechanics, fabrication …
Aimex fined $275k after man suffers brain injury
RNZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz › news › business › aimex-fined…
9/07/2021 — A Nelson engineering company has been ordered to pay more than $340,000 after a teenage apprentice was found unconscious in the engine room …
Documents destroyed in attempted cover-up during …
Stuff.co.nz
https://www.stuff.co.nz › national › documents-destroye…
25/04/2023 — Documents destroyed in attempted cover-up during investigation into accident that left worker with brain injury. Amy Ridout09:42, Apr 25 2023.
Nelson marine engineering firm head and health …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz › New Zealand › Crime
23/04/2023 — A young employee was left brain-damaged after he was overcome by toxic fumes.
Aimex workplace accident victim Brook Palmer breaks …
New Zealand Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz › New Zealand 29/04/2023
…The young apprentice had been gleefully telling a colleague at the marine engineering firm they worked at that his partner had made lunch for him, and he’d been looking forward to eating it.
So when the 18-year-old didn’t show up for lunch, his colleague knew to go looking for him.
The colleague found him lifeless at the bottom of the boat and immediately called for help from a cellphone…
Brook had worked at Nelson-based industrial engineering firm Aimex for only about six months when a workplace accident cut short his ambition of a career as a marine engineer…
He had been using a volatile brake cleaner to clean the engine bay of a large catamaran and was unfamiliar, as it turned out, with how to use it safely because, according to WorkSafe NZ, the company had failed to develop a safe system of work relating to hazardous substances.
It had also failed to properly supervise, train and instruct its workers on working with hazardous substances…
What Brook and others didn’t know was that just days before his accident another worker had also been overcome by fumes carrying out the same task.
“Employee X” – as he was named in court documents – had been cleaning the engine room of the same vessel Brook had been working on with brake cleaner when he was overcome with fumes.
Fortunately, he recognised the symptoms and was able to get himself out of the situation immediately.
Employee X recorded it on his timesheet that day, July 24, 2019, stating he had felt “light-headed”, and told the company’s health and safety officer, who completed an incident report which recorded the details of what had happened.
Advance Civilisation 21stC style – and be recognised – as being totally ludicrous and stuffed.
“The industrial revolution reaches its height in the middle of the 19th century and you have unprecedented economic growth, you have this massive creation of wealth.
“But at the same time, health among the majority of the population, in Liverpool and Manchester, which are the centres of the Industrial Revolution, life expectancy for factory workers falls to 15 in Liverpool and 17 in Manchester. This is really, really catastrophic.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018889002/jonathan-kennedy-how-germs-made-history
This way to the cliff edge, and beyond there are piles and piles of money. Just walk forward.
Further to my comment about book on cults Cult Trip’ by Anke Richter Open Mike 7 May. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/05/06/the-daily-blog-open-mic-6th-may-2023/#comment-736333
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/489642/cult-mum-who-allegedly-beat-toddler-daughter-to-death-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder
A mother who allegedly beat her 2-year-old daughter to death with a piece of plastic pipe while living in a cult in rural Sydney in 1987 has pleaded not guilty to murder…
Alexander Wilon founded the Ministry of God cult in the late 1980s and ran it out of a secluded property in Porters Retreat, several hours’ drive west of Sydney.
Wilon went by the name Alfio Nicolosi at the time and held prayer sessions at the property.
After the cult disbanded, Nicolosi changed his name and became a Justice of the Peace and a security consultant, conducting firearms training and other security training for a range of government organisations.
This society is doomed, charlatans abound, not enough people committed to good human relationships with respect of both the individual and community.
I tawt I taw a putty tat. An article on the disinformation project v. free speech? Disparut. Are we supposed to forget … too funny. All we on the Left have is integrity. You can piss on as you’ve seen, and taken to heart apparently. But it will only contribute to more reduction of our great cause. Best wishes for the smallening business.
Giving Council’s too many rights seems a mistake. Too many big noters and self promoters rise to the top. Why would Queenstown start leasing out part of its camping areas – why not keep in its own hands?
There are concerns the sale of leases for five Queenstown Lakes camping grounds to an Australian group may spell the end to the Kiwi camping experience at the sites.
But the Queenstown Lakes District Council says it intends to retain ownership of the land, and campers will continue to enjoy the places they love.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/489650/queenstown-camping-grounds-to-be-leased-to-australian-company