The 35-year-old man charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to the death of Wipatene Mason has now also been charged with murder.
Mr Mason died on 26 December following an incident in Nukuhou, which occurred on 24 December.
The man is due to appear in Tauranga District Court on 10 February.
Covid-19: Auckland Back To Alert Level Three After One New Community Case RevealedAuckland will move to alert level three for a week at 6am tomorrow morning after two new Covid-19 community cases announced this evening could not be directly linked to earlier cases, the Prime Minister has confirmed.
The rest of the country will move to level two.... More>>
Gordon Campbell: On The Rivals For The Covid Saliva Testing Dollar
If you want a good insight into what the limits of tiny, barely discernible steps to reduce poverty actually look like, delve into the latest Statistics Department figures on poverty in New Zealand Most of the nine measures utilised reveal little or no progress in combatting poverty over the 21 months to March 2020... More>>
Government: Main Benefits To Increase In Line With Wages
All measures of child poverty were trending downwards, prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, across the two years since year ended June 2018, Stats NZ said today. The COVID-19 lockdown in late March 2020 affected Stats NZ’s ability to collect data from households ... More>>
Government: Reserve Bank To Take Account Of Housing In Decision Making
The Reserve Bank is now required to consider the impact on housing when making monetary and financial policy decisions, Grant Robertson announced today. Changes have been made to the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee’s remit requiring it to take into ... More>>
There are no new community cases of Covid-19 today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says at least half of the Papatoetoe High School community have been tested and the results that have come through so far have all been negative... More>>
NZ Initiative: New Report Highlights How Our Housing Crisis Could Worsen If We Don’t Act Now
If New Zealand politicians thought the housing crisis in 2020 was bad, the worst is yet to come, warns a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. In The Need to Build: The demographic drivers of housing demand , Research Assistant Leonard Hong ... More>>
Parliament: Kiwi MPs Among The “Most Educated In The World”
New analysis of MP qualifications reveals New Zealand’s Parliament is one of the most educated and highest qualified in the world, and significantly more educated than Australia’s. The research, by Mark Blackham of BlacklandPR and Geoffrey Miller ... More>>
The Dig: An Illogical Ideological Struggle
Dig beneath all the trade wars and the arguments to the effect that the USA should not permit China to achieve economic and technological superiority, or even parity, and you find the real reason behind the conflict... More>>
Travel: Government Eases Visa Restrictions For Visitors In New Zealand
Visitor visa holders will be able to stay in New Zealand a little longer as the Government eases restrictions for those still here, the Minister of Immigration has announced. More>>
