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Counted cross stitch kit
Christmas Minnie mouse
Everything needed is included.
Collection is from Herd Rd, Hillsborough
Counted cross stitch kit
Giraffes
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13 x 18 cm
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We are bringing you the latest list of recalled products from across the country. Make sure you aren't using these at home!
Click on the blue text to learn more about that particular product and why it was recalled.
Food and household item recalls:
… View moreWe are bringing you the latest list of recalled products from across the country. Make sure you aren't using these at home!
Click on the blue text to learn more about that particular product and why it was recalled.
Food and household item recalls:
Tom & Luke brand Snackaballs and Vogel's brand Cereal Products
Pams brand Mini Hash Browns
Gilmours Peanuts Chopped
FreshLife brand Chopped Peanuts
Piper’s brand Milkshake Biscuits Original and Caramel
Tasti brand various products
Dometic Drinkware Tumbler
Product Recalls: Infant care and clothing
Steelcraft One2 V2 and Britax One2 Strollers
Car Seat G405- sold at Panda Mart
Car Seat G401- sold at Panda Mart
Car Seat G410- sold at Panda Mart
Car Seat LB-828- sold at Panda Mart
Car Seat Q5- sold at Panda Mart
Car Seat 10911524- sold at Panda Mart
Car Seat 11630- sold at Panda Mart
Annabel Trends Toothy Teether and Annabel Trends Cactus Teether
Product Recalls: Cosmetics
Ultra Violette Lean Screen SPF 50+
Aspect Sun Sunscreens- Physical Sun Protection SPF50+ and Tinted Physical SPF50+
Product Recalls: Electronics
Tesla Powerwall 2 Battery Energy Storage Units
Midea Air Fryer- sold at Trade Depot
ANKO Portable Blender (4 colourways)- sold at Kmart
Product Recalls: Other
“Wobbly head Dino” Greeting Card
Trojan Developments Prox Rex
Zenith Taps- ChillTap Extra 60 (Residential), ChillTap Extra 140 (Commercial)
Hot Water Bottles- sold at MIDIO Lambton Quay Limited
Check the New Zealand Transport Agency's handy vehicle recall list here.
See past months' recalls. Stay safe, neighbours!
Counted cross stitch kit.
Clowns.
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34 x 24 cm
Collection is from Herd Rd, Hillsborough
Counted cross stitch kit.
Footprints
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Thread
Fabric etc
25 x 30 cm
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Wishing you all bright days! Happy Diwali from the Neighbourly Team 💚🕯️
A property manager was forced to cut her final inspection of an Auckland rental property short after being greeted by hundreds of flies, a strong stench of dog poo and urine-soaked carpet.
The Barfoot and Thompson property manager said she could barely enter the property due to the smell of dog … View moreA property manager was forced to cut her final inspection of an Auckland rental property short after being greeted by hundreds of flies, a strong stench of dog poo and urine-soaked carpet.
The Barfoot and Thompson property manager said she could barely enter the property due to the smell of dog urine and faeces.
She was so concerned about the state of the house, she shortened the report to one overall category, noting there were a number of areas that were intentionally damaged by the tenants, Barry Phillips and Tessa Boyd, and their two dogs and six puppies.
“The dogs have defecated and urinated all over the floors, and the stench was very strong,’' Keely Stubbs, the head of property management for the agency’s Mt Eden branch, said in her final inspection report of the Massey house.
“There were hundreds of flies. The floor at the entrance to the first bedroom has been damaged. It appears to be wet from urine.”
Wet items were left on the downstairs floor, the front door wasn’t secure, and the keys hadn’t been returned.
Now the Tenancy Tribunal has awarded the landlords – Barfoot and Thompson as agents for Rysy Investments – $27,000, saying the pair must have known the damage that was being done during their four-year tenancy.
“The tenants allowed a situation where they had six puppies inside, toileting all over the flooring and carpet for a series of months,” tribunal adjudicator Melissa Allan said in a recently released decision.
“The tenants must have known the damage was a certainty.”
Scratch marks, holes in couches, piles of rubbish
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According to the decision, the house wasn’t always in such a poor state. Photos presented at the hearing, taken in May 2023, show the house in a fairly tidy condition, except for two damaged doors, a large pile of rubbish in the laundry, and unkempt lawns.
During that inspection, it was also discovered that the tenants had two dogs (only one of which was permitted) and puppies, which were all housed inside.
The tenants, who were supposed to move out in September 2023, successfully sought a three-month extension, giving them time to re-home the puppies, repair the two doors and maintain the lawns.
But after the tenants left, photos showed the carpet in the bedrooms and hallway was covered in urine and faeces, as was the laminate flooring in the lounge and the terracotta tiles downstairs.
There were scratch marks all over the walls, and some of the carpet had been scratched and torn. A couch in one room had been upended, with the stuffing torn out and covering most of the floor. A window was broken, and there were holes in the walls.
The tenants also left behind a fridge full of food, multiple couches, a double bed and mattress, various drawers, a table, and chairs, a TV cabinet, and huge piles of what appeared to be soiled bedding.
Rubbish was left under the house and strewn throughout the garden.
Barfoot and Thompson asked the Tenancy Tribunal for rent arrears and compensation.
While the decision noted the landlord had claimed insurance for some of the damage, it didn’t cover all of it, including the cost of repairing the flooring, because the insurers believed it was gradual damage.
Soft and swollen particle board
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The landlord said the flooring was so badly damaged that all the carpet, timber underlay, and the vinyl in the kitchen had to be removed.
The floors in the hallway and bedroom also had to be cut out and replaced as the urine had softened and swollen the particle board. Photos showed it was heavily stained and damaged.
Taking into account depreciation and betterment, the tribunal awarded the landlord $23,118 for repairs to the flooring.
A further $5000 was awarded for removing rubbish both inside and under the house, bringing the total award to $27,391.
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An estimated 100,000 workers from the public sector - also including dentists, social workers, physiotherapists and mental health staffers - are set to be involved, as they take a stand for better pay and conditions, as well as raising concerns around safe staffing levels.
Public Service Minister … View moreAn estimated 100,000 workers from the public sector - also including dentists, social workers, physiotherapists and mental health staffers - are set to be involved, as they take a stand for better pay and conditions, as well as raising concerns around safe staffing levels.
Public Service Minister Judith Collins, meanwhile, has released an open letter to anyone who will be impacted by the strikes and said they appeared to be “politically motivated by the unions”.
Who is striking?
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About 17,000 health members with the Public Service Association are taking part in the strike on October 23.
They are made up of allied health staff, mental and public health nurses, home support workers and policy, knowledge, advisory and specialist workers who want fair pay, safe staffing and improved conditions to give what they say is quality care patients deserve.
Why are they striking?
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PSA national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said its members were standing up for safe staffing and for the public health service.
“We have been heartened by the overwhelming support from the public for the strikes, and we know that the protests on the day will be an expression of solidarity between workers in health, education ... and the public they serve.
“These workers have not taken strike action lightly, but consider they have a responsibility to stand up for the health service they know New Zealanders need.”
Health NZ’s pay offers have been criticised by senior doctors, with the PSA describing a 2 per cent rise, followed by a 1.5 per cent increase over a 30-month period as being well below inflation.
“The pay offers are effectively pay cuts during a cost-of-living crisis. We risk losing more health workers to Australia,” the PSA said.
There are not enough health workers to provide the level of care Kiwis need and, to make up numbers, staff were often having to pull double shifts.
“They can’t give their best to patients when they’re so thinly stretched and burnt out.”
The NZ Educational Institute has confirmed more than 40,000 of its members will strike for extra classroom support for children with diverse learning needs.
More than 20,000 unionised secondary and area school teachers are also involved in the mega strike due to a lack of progress with collective agreement negotiations, the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association confirmed earlier this month.
A 1% pay rise offer from the Government, in August, had also served as a trigger; dubbed by the PPTA as “appalling” and the lowest increase in a generation.
Underpaid and understaffed, workers ‘infuriated’
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NZ Council of Trade Unions president Richard Wagstaff said the strike action was in response to a centralised government strategy to hold down wages below inflation and to cut resources to the public service.
He said the wide range of professional workers had been negotiating for more than a year, in some cases. The only response they had received, he said, was from employers wanting them to be locked into a long-term agreement with pay adjustments under inflation.
“And they’ve given them no proper response to the resource issues - the short staffing, the breaking down of equipment and so on.
“They know that by cutting wages and by basically having people overworked and underpaid, it really risks the workforce dissipating and leaving for better places, particularly Australia.”
Wagstaff said it was unfair and “quite infuriating” for workers, given that the Government has said it would address the cost-of-living crisis.
“And here they are telling their own workers - their essential workers who keep everything running - that they should expect a pay cut.”
Wagstaff called on ordinary members of the public to get out on Thursday and strike with workers to show their support.
He said they were fighting not just for themselves, but for all Kiwis.
“It’s these public services that enable all of us to live decent lives - health services we can rely on, education services so we can reach our potential, public services to keep us protected and support our interests as a community.
“They are standing up for quality public services.
“They are really exasperated by employers who seem intent on reducing the public sector, reducing the wages of the public sector, reducing the services of the public sector and reducing the resources.”
Public Service Minister’s open letter to affected Kiwis
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Collins has written an open letter to patients, students and families affected by this week’s planned strike.
“The Government regrets the impact on you, your children and your families that is expected on Thursday because of a strike planned by a number of unions.
“We regret even more that the strike appears to be politically motivated by the unions. What else could possibly explain that in early October, when we were trying to negotiate with the secondary teachers’ union, the number one item on their agenda for a meeting with Education Minister Erica Stanford was Palestine,” Collins wrote.
“Palestine. Not terms and conditions. Not student achievement. Not the new curriculum. Palestine. That’s now what students or parents should expect.”
Collins urged parents of senior students to ask their children’s teachers to question their union’s priorities.
“And to all the parents of younger children, who have had to rearrange their usual commitments, I urge you to ask your children’s teachers why their union arranged a strike in a week when many schools already have teacher-only days, followed by Labour Day on Monday.”
Collins went on to say that the Government has acted in good faith and met with unions’ demands for pay increases in line with inflation.
She also spoke directly to those Kiwis who have had medical appointments and procedures postponed due to the strike.
“I know some of you are living in pain and in fear of a possible diagnosis that will now be delayed. This industrial action is unfair and unwarranted.”
Collins said they value nurses, doctors and other health workers whose everyday care supports patients. They also valued teachers, principals and teacher aides, she said.
“We value all public sector employees.”
The Government had a responsibility to manage the country’s finances carefully - and especially when “money is tight”, she said.
“From cancer drugs to social housing, from support for vulnerable people to conversation initiatives, there are thousands of appeals for increased spending as well as for wage increases.
“The country is simply not earning enough to meet all these calls.”
She pointed to a “huge increase” in public spending over Covid and in the following years, which resulted to public debt exploding.
“It is only unions who want strikes. We ask, once again, for them to come to the table. That is the place to talk and to bargain.”
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Eyore snow globe.
When you shake it, glitter moves around.
5 cm x 7 cm height
Collection is from Herd Rd, Hillsborough
A trailblazing Māori scholar has finally received the recognition she deserves — nearly 100 years after her passing.
Mākereti Papakura, believed to be the first Indigenous woman to study at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a posthumous degree certificate.
Papakura sadly passed … View moreA trailblazing Māori scholar has finally received the recognition she deserves — nearly 100 years after her passing.
Mākereti Papakura, believed to be the first Indigenous woman to study at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a posthumous degree certificate.
Papakura sadly passed away in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis. Her research was later published as The Old-Time Māori — the first ethnographic study written by a Māori author.
We hope this brings a smile!
Special votes have now been validated and counted, confirming Wayne Brown as mayor elect of Tāmaki Makaurau.
👏 Congratulations to our elected members and welcome to the 2025-2028 electoral term.
ℹ️ Find out what’s changed since preliminary results by clicking on 'Read … View moreSpecial votes have now been validated and counted, confirming Wayne Brown as mayor elect of Tāmaki Makaurau.
👏 Congratulations to our elected members and welcome to the 2025-2028 electoral term.
ℹ️ Find out what’s changed since preliminary results by clicking on 'Read More'.
📚 SEP-OCT 2025 BOOK CATALOGUE 📚
Many apologies for the delay in this book catalogue, but we’ve had a very busy couple of months. The good news: there are some great new arrivals including Ilona Andrews’ THE INHERITANCE (Breach War Series), Carissa Broadbent’s THE FALLEN AND THE KISS OF… View more📚 SEP-OCT 2025 BOOK CATALOGUE 📚
Many apologies for the delay in this book catalogue, but we’ve had a very busy couple of months. The good news: there are some great new arrivals including Ilona Andrews’ THE INHERITANCE (Breach War Series), Carissa Broadbent’s THE FALLEN AND THE KISS OF DUSK (Crowns of Nyaxia Series), Laurie Gilmore’s THE GINGERBREAD BAKERY (Dream Harbour Series), Ali Hazelwood’s MATE (Bride Series), J.D. Robb’s FRAMED IN DEATH (In Death Series), J.R. Ward’s LOVER FORBIDDEN (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series), Elsie Silver’s WILD CARD (Rose Hill Series), SenLinYu’s ALCHEMISED and many more. Enjoy!
Check out the catalogue at
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• Details of the Auckland Romance Readers Book Club Monthly Meetings and Auckland Romance Readers Book Club Facebook Group.
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Serve spooky and stylish this Halloween with one-of-a-kind, pre-loved looks from your local Red Cross Onehunga Shop.
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