Police big wheel gets to ride one
Getting up on a penny-farthing might seem like a high-risk activity but New Zealand Police Commissioner Peter Marshall is not a man who is easily fazed. Mr Marshall was going to ride one "by hell or high water" in Oamaru yesterday. Community constable Bruce Dow helped the commissioner achieve his goal, letting his boss have a go on a...
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PRINCESS ANNE MAY COME TO OAMARU
Oamaru may host a high level member of the Royal Family at next year's centenary commemoration of the 1913 ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic by Captain Robert...
Tour takes a walk on 'dark' side
If you don't believe in ghosts, you may change your mind after venturing out on a new night tour around Oamaru's Victorian Precinct.
Black Boy Peaches hitting town to play
Dunedin band Black Boy Peaches are looking forward to visiting Oamaru as part of a string of New Zealand Music Month gigs around the lower South Island to promote...
Govt eroding education: principal
Pembroke School principal Brent Godfery says the Government is "destroying" New Zealand's world class education system.
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Scientists discover clover's missing link
AgResearch scientists have made a breakthrough by proving a long-held view that white clover originated as a hybrid of other clover ancestors.
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$70,000 for irrigation work
The North Otago Irrigation Company has been awarded a $70,000 grant from the Ministry for Primary Industries' Irrigation Acceleration Fund to co-fund the design and...
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Hats off to fly star Oscar
Oscar Pedersen becomes the third Oamaru swimmer to train at Swimming New Zealand's South Island Regional Age Groups camp in Queenstown this weekend.
Ask Dr. Gary: Ibuprofen risks for asthmatics
Doctors used to think ibuprofen was potentially dangerous for all asthmatics, period. Recent research has refined this a bit.
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Movie review: The Five-Year...
There's a touch of realism about Tom Solomon (Jason Segel) and Violet Barnes' (Emily Blunt) up-and-down journey to marriage.
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Salvors recover aluminium from Rena wreck
Salvors have made good progress recovering bundles of aluminium ingots from the wreck of the Rena despite bad weather earlier in the week.Twenty-five bundles were...
- Guns, drugs seized in Kaikoura raids
- Gorge fully cleared of slip debris
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Canada cannibal wins bid to leave...
A man who beheaded and cannibalised a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept,...
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Busy quarter for agents as farm sales rise
The North Otago rural real estate market has joined the national lift in the number of farms sold for the first quarter of 2012.
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