The Daily Blog Open Mic – 15th April 2025
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/558245/wikipedia-s-largest-non-english-version-was-created-by-a-bot-generative-ai-poses-new-problems
Interesting. Isn’t life exciting with new challenges that are world-shaking happening each day and that doesn’t include earthquakes
This sounds interesting – but it is not obvious where it operates. ‘Where is fancy bred’? Is it just on the ether?
Good news, but let’s hear more. Where will it draw its funding?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/558273/new-music-school-opens-to-fill-gap-left-by-mainz-closure
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/558270/social-supermarket-set-up-in-hastings-for-struggling-families
Look at this – sounds good.
Rich uncle/carbuncle is coming to save the poor relations. Sounds like a Victorian novel.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/558248/golden-visa-applications-seven-investors-with-35m-to-spend-approved-so-far
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/558199/owners-are-officially-no-longer-responsible-for-tourism-accidents-on-their-land-but-they-never-really-were
That magic word tourism. But some farmers decades back put up a spirited defence against our own government and local authority for not taking responsibility for being largely responsible for a death on their land. Was a film ever made of this (referemce Miss Alice)?
2003
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0310/S00159/king-country-bridge-collapse-case.htm
…The Berrymans feel they have suffered for loss of earnings, legal bills and anxiety and distress as a result of the ongoing case.
The coroner’s court did not hear the findings of the Army’s own court of inquiry into the fatality.
New information given to police shows that army personnel had always been worried about untreated timber materials used to construct the bridge..,.
The army built the bridge on the road which Land Information New Zealand said was under Ruapehu District Council control.
“In the case of the Te Rata Bridge both the army and the council showed a dereliction of duty,’’ the Berrymans said, in their letter to police…….
The bridge was owned by the Taumarunui County Council, now Ruapehu District Council. The Berrymans say the council was responsible for inspecting and maintaining the bridge. …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/lawyer-ordered-to-give-back-secret-army-report-on-bridge-collapse/O3JIUDVQDOFINC6NEYHHP76FHA/
March 2005
The secret army report that Keith and Margaret Berryman’s lawyer says exonerates the couple for the death of a beekeeper on the swing bridge leading to their King Country farm 11 years ago has been repossessed by the Crown to prevent the news media getting hold of it.
The Berrymans’ lawyer, Rob Moodie, has been ordered to return to the army all copies he holds of the Butcher Report, which details the army’s own responsibility for the collapse of the bridge it built for the Berrymans in 1986.
2009 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/14854/berryman-bridge-case-struck-out-of-court
3:12 pm on 6 August 2009
The High Court has struck out a claim for damages in the Berryman bridge case.
The army-built bridge leading to Keith and Margaret Berryman’s King Country farm collapsed in 1994, killing beekeeper Ken Richards.
The Berrymans wanted to sue the army, claiming it acted maliciously in the wake of the bridge collapse by withholding information from a coroner’s inquest.
The Court of Appeal allowed the claim to go ahead in 2008, but the High Court issued a ruling on Thursday saying it must be struck out.
Justice MacKenzie says the proceeding, which was filed in 2006, did not begin within six years of the cause of the alleged misfeasance.
He says there is no public interest in allowing the matters to be further litigated and it is not in the Berrymans’ interests to allow them to continue with a claim that is bound to fail.
New development in Berryman bridge case
sharechat.co.nz http://www.sharechat.co.nz › article › about
5 Jul 2002 — Keith and Margaret Berryman want compensation for the loss of their farm, loss of earnings, legal bills and anxiety and distress as a result …
Family lost farm, health in battle over bridge
Otago Daily Times https://www.odt.co.nz › news › national › family-lost-fa…
2 May 2008 — But the couple was finally vindicated yesterday when High Court Justice Jill Mallon quashed the 1997 finding by Taumarunui coroner Tim Scott …