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RNZ Pacific 1306 20 Apr 2024

7440Khz 1259 20 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55333. English, s/on w/bellbird int. until pips and news @1300z anchored by Vicki McKay. A worker has been winched out by crane after becoming trapped under a steel pole at a major Auckland Council infrastructure project. More than a dozen firefighters and several police and ambulance staff are on the scene at the Central Interceptor site on Haverstock Rd in Sandringham. Police have revealed the name of the man who was found dead in a burnt-out vehicle in Hastings. He was 49-year-old Patrick Teteni Rewiti of Napier. His body was found by emergency services on Irongate Road in Flaxmere on 26 March. Russia said its air defense systems intercepted almost 50 Ukrainian drones, missiles and "small-sized balloons" over several of its border regions Wednesday night. Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted two "Tochka-U" missiles, rockets, drones and five "small-sized balloons" over the Belgorod, Rostov and Voronezh regions that border Ukraine. The regions have found themselves to be the targets of numerous drone and missile attacks in recent months. The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters late on Friday, adding an agreement was reached between United States deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell and Niger's leadership. Auckland recycling center accepts material from wrecked homes from cyclone. Sports. @1303z trailer for RNZ "Inside Out". @1304z Weather Forecast: A few showers, clearing in the afternoon, some areas isolated showers by evening. @1305z "All Night Programme" anchored by Vicki McKay. Backyard gutter antenna, Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0759.

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Edith Amituanai

Edith Amituanai is an artist born in Aotearoa that specialises in lens-based media. She was born and raised in West Auckland. She’s become widely known for photographing her Samoan family and community in West Auckland. She uses her camera as a tool of “empowerment and celebration”, making art out of her community. Edith says that as a child of immigrant parents, education was very important. She had always been interested in art and eventually chose photography as her preferred medium, completing a Bachelor of Design in 2005 that majored in photography. Her photography has always focused on what home means. Inspired by documentary photography, she focuses on diaspora experiences, urban environments, community, and giving unheard people a voice. Recently, Edith has used photography to engage with young people. She took up a 6 week residency in 2017 at Kimi Ora Community School in Flaxmere, working with children who didn’t have access to a camera. The result was an exhibition that featured images taken by Edith and many of the local children.  

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Flaxmere community hurt by car fires - https://goo.gl/w6cN8D - #Auto_Insurance, #Car, #Community, #Fires, #Flaxmere, #Hurt

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🫣 ultima delusione letteraria dell’anno 😅 si spera. 👉🏻 #natalecondelitto Natale, 1935. Sir Osmond non è molto generoso, soprattutto con i figli che hanno sposato persone a lui non gradite. Come di consueto però, quel Natale riunisce tutti a Flaxmere. Gli ospiti non sono felici di essere lì, hanno più motivi di augurargli una imminente morte che un felice Natale. Durante l’arrivo di Babbo Natale, sir Osmond era nella studio ed è lì che lo trovano morto. Il colpo di pistola è stato nascosto dai rumori dei festeggiamenti. 👎🏻 La storia inizia con una visuale sulla famiglia, sulla loro situazione, i problemi tra loro, il tutto descritto in modo abbastanza soporifero e aggrovigliato. Ci si ritrova tra: il figlio di, la moglie di, il preferito di, il meno amato di. Già dopo venti pagine mi ero stufata. 👍🏻 Dopo circa sessanta pagine finalmente un omicidio! Quella festa stava diventando davvero noiosa! 👍🏻 I capitoli sono narrati dal punto di vista dei vari personaggi. Ad inizio capitolo viene riportato il nome del narratore. C’è anche una piantina con gli interni della casa. 👍🏻 I vari eventi e spostamenti dei personaggi vengono esposti con chiarezza. Il commissario fa anche un elenco con le sue impressioni e non mancano i riassunti per ricapitolare cosa è stato scoperto. Insomma le indagini sono scrupolose. 👎🏻 Peccato per il senso di noia che mi ha tenuto compagnia dall’inizio alla fine. Non fanno che tornare sempre sui stessi punti, ci sono fin troppi interrogatori. 👍🏻👎🏻 Senza dubbio le indagini sono meticolose ma è la storia a non essere accattivante. ❓Un libro che vi ha deluso quest’anno? #antrodilibri #bibliophilelegentibus #amicandito #ilclubdeilettorifelici #storiebookitissime #thebookclubpost https://www.instagram.com/p/CmvmzSoM7a-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Police respond to serious incident in Hawke's Bay

Police respond to serious incident in Hawke’s Bay

Police in Hawke’s Bay have arrested a 32-year-old man sought following an incident in Flaxmere this morning. File photo. Photo: NZ / Marika Khabazi Earlier today police responded to a serious incident that forced two schools in Hastings into lockdown. The man was arrested in Taradale this afternoon. He will be facing a number of charges, which police said they would confirm later. “We…

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🌏🏆🏈Today South Africa Vs Canada 11:15pm. Good Luck. (at Flaxmere) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3UxWrsnhEI/?igshid=breb1uxx0hmo

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🤔 (at Flaxmere) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3TPZQJHOQj/?igshid=7l9c0ag8bf6y

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Yeah, nothing much happened at the party.  Well, apparently someone got stabbed, but that's Flaxmere so...

Bex.

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Staying at the Hilton in Sydney was so classy. Who would of thought a girl bought up in Flaxmere, Hastings, 40 years later living a lifestyle in my happy place! Of course I DID! https://www.instagram.com/p/BsjFcRTlooZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=khuxnlejsygs

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By RNZ

A Flaxmere grandmother has gone viral on social media with her unusual violin playing skills.

A video of Nanny Moewaka playing a violin

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Man arrested after large armed police search across Hawke's Bay

Man arrested after large armed police search across Hawke’s Bay

Ricky Wilson/Stuff Armed police are responding to a “serious incident” in Napier. Police have arrested a 32-year-old man who allegedly sparked a large-scale search involving armed officers and a helicopter across Hawke’s Bay A police spokeswoman said armed police officers were responding to a “serious incident” looking for a “priority offender” in Flaxmere at 11.30am on Monday. However, by…

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New Zealand has more gangsters than soldiers

THE picturesque wine country of Hawkes Bay is hardly a classic gangland. Tourists come here to ogle art deco buildings or slurp merlot. But its less affluent suburbs are divided between bitter rivals: Black Power and the Mongrel Mob, New Zealand’s biggest gangs. This underworld occasionally rears its head, with, say, gunfire at a rugby game, or an assault outside a winery.

For a sleepy country, New Zealand has a peculiar problem with gangs. Police count over 5,300 members or “prospects” lining up to join one of its 25 listed groups, which together makes them a bigger force than the army. Unlike counterparts in other countries, they thrive in rural areas as well as cities. Almost a quarter of people living in the shabby bungalows of Flaxmere, a suburb in Hawkes Bay, are said to be linked to Black Power.

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Bikers such as the Hell’s Angels have a presence in New Zealand, but Black Power and the Mongrel Mob have ruled the roost for almost half a century. Their members “stick out like dogs��� balls”, one admits, because they sew patches onto their clothes and brand themselves with dense tattoos. A clenched fist is the symbol of Black Power; a bulldog or the Nazi salute “Sieg Heil” are the marks of the Mongrels. Both gangs are predominantly Maori. In all, police say three-quarters of the country’s mobsters are Maori (they make up just 15% of the population as a whole).

For decades the groups fought ruthlessly for turf, beat and raped women, and pushed wannabe members into violent crime to earn their stripes. When the economy slumped in the 1990s, mobsters sold drugs from houses known as “tinnies” and demanded protection money from other criminals. Today prison officers say that “ethnic gangs” work as methamphetamine distributors for more organised biker groups and foreign syndicates. They keep the prisons in business, filling about a third of cells and accounting for over 14% of all murder charges, according to police.

Locking gang members up has arguably exacerbated the problem, by turning jails into recruitment grounds. Gang colours and insignia are banned behind bars, but “nine times out of ten” inmates will “turn to a gang just for protection”, explains Mane Adams, a heavily inked boss of Black Power, who has served two sentences himself. Some leaders have taken to tattooing the faces of prison recruits, to guarantee fealty when they are free.

But if the authorities have not done gangs much harm, methamphetamines have. Mr Adams began campaigning against the drug after a comrade disembowelled himself in meth-induced psychosis. A smattering of gang leaders have tried to ban members from using them, after seeing paranoid henchmen turn against each other. Yet when officials conduct tests in gang-members’ homes, they are still more likely to find traces of the substance than not.

Reform-minded gangsters swear that they are cleaning up in other ways. Black Power prohibits the lurid gang rapes that once occurred on an almost weekly basis. Leaders say they now criticise, rather than joke about, domestic violence. Women linked to the gangs claim their lives are vastly improved. Street battles, too, have grown less frequent.

By almost every measure, life is still worse for Maoris than other New Zealanders, but gangsters insist that, thanks to a strong economy, criminality is no longer a prerequisite for survival. Many Maoris claim to join as much for whanau, or family, as for money, power or thrills. “People have this idea we are all rapists and murderers and methamphetamine cooks. But not all gang members are criminals,” laments Eugene Ryder, a leader of Black Power in Wellington. He requires his underlings to study or take full-time jobs.

Jarrod Gilbert, an academic, believes that gang life has “fundamentally changed from what it was”. Neil Campbell, who heads the Maori division of the Corrections Department, agrees that some “pro-social” gang members really “do want better for their children”. Perhaps the best proof of the gangs’ rehabilitation is the rise of new, more destructive rivals. The bling-obsessed teenage members of the new outfits are unpredictable and violent—just as the mellowing members of the Mongrel Mob and Black Power used to be.

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Bigger than the army"

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Two charged over assault in Flaxmere that left boy brain damaged

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Review : The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay ( British Library Crime Classics #1 )

Review : The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay ( British Library Crime Classics #1 )

Sir Osmond Melbury is having a family gathering for Christmas at his country mansion Flaxmere but his sister is of the view that nothing good could ever come of the Melbury family gatherings . For a change , Sir Osmond has planned to liven up the Christmas festivities by having one of the guests dress up as Santa Claus and distribute the presents to his grand – children and the servants . Sir…

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🌲🌹🌿💐🍁🌼🌱🌻🌾🌸🍃💮🍂🌷💮🌹 (at Flaxmere) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2-BGJyHTxe/?igshid=121zhrywj1oyg

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Horowhenua-Kāpiti signs Australian Junior Laloifi for Heartland campaign

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Horowhenua-Kāpiti signs Australian Junior Laloifi for Heartland campaign

Horowhenua-Kāpiti loan player Junior Laloifi still harbours a desire to one day play Super Rugby again and wear the green and gold of Australia once more.

The speedy outside back has pledged his allegiance to a country he had played for internationally and had given him so many opportunities in rugby.

“I’m loyal to the soil,” he said.

The 24-year-old, who joined the Horowhenua-Kāpiti team for the first time this week, realised he might get some good-natured ribbing from his new teammates once they picked up on his accent.

Laloifi realised that once he nailed his colours to the mast he might be in for some banter, but wouldn’t expect otherwise.

“That’s what brothers do, isn’t it?” he said.

“That was a magnificent win in the weekend, too [by Australia over the All Blacks]. We’ve already won [the World Cup]. We’re just playing mind games with the All Blacks now.”

Laloifi joined the Horowhenua-Kāpiti team before their match against a Wellington Centurion XV tomorrow, in what will be their final hit-out before the Heartland campaign starts the following week against Mid-Canterbury in Ashburton.

The 24-year-old Laloifi was born in Hastings and raised in Flaxmere as a youngster, attending Hastings Boys’ High School, where he played for the top school side as a Year 9 student.

He was virtually plucked from class by Australian rugby scouts after two seasons with the HBHS 1st XV at 15.

Despite his youth, he made the brave decision to fly to Australia where he played schoolboy rugby in Melbourne. His family – father Peti, mother Sisaga, sisters Pini, Mua and Mikayla, and brother Sola – all followed soon after.

They settled in the suburb of Lalor, where he said initially the hardest thing was adapting to the heat. But he found a liking for the firm tracks and soon made his mark, gaining selection for Victoria and then the Australia A schools team in 2012.

While still at school he was contracted into the wider Australian sevens rugby squad where he cracked that side later that year, playing in tournaments all over the world.

He joined the Sunnybank Rugby Club, a team that made the Queensland Premier club final that year and the following season was picked for Brisbane City, scoring try in a grand final win against Perth.

He was the competition’s leading try scorer with 14 for the season. That meant he gained the attention of the Queensland Reds.

Laloifi was offered a Super Rugby contract in 2016. He played six Super Rugby matches for the Queensland Reds although was unwanted the following year, so a decision was made to join the Feilding Old Boys club in New Zealand.

FOB won the competition that season and Laloifi was picked for Manawatū, where he scored five tries in nine games.

Unwanted by Manawatū this year, Laloifi was keen to get his career back on track with a good season for Horowhenua-Kāpiti.

Junior Laloifi won’t rule out playing for Australia again if he gets the chance.

Laloifi said he was excited at the chance to represent Horowhenua-Kāpiti this season and “play some footy”. He already knew some of the team, including his Feilding Old Boys teammate Nardis Erasmus.

While still a young man Laloifi had one eye on the future and hoped he might get the chance to represent Australia again, having played many seasons of sevens in green and gold.

The Laloifi family continue to live in Australia, including his 3-year-old daughter Skyla, and he would return there at the end of the Heartland season.

Meanwhile, kick-off for the match against Wellington Centurions is at 2.30pm at Courtesy Ford Levin Domain. Entry is free.

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