Otago Boys' High School rector Clive Rennie is backing the
decisions of two teachers who had to be rescued along with 10
pupils from the Rock and Pillar Range on Saturday night.
Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a
proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago
Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.
Images of the wrecked engine from a Royal New Zealand Air
Force Harvard brought graphic memories flooding back to pilot
Aubrey Bills, 60 years after his crash.
New Zealanders had ''stood tall'' over nuclear shipping
issues and should strongly resist threats to their privacy
arising from proposed changes to New Zealand security laws,
Associate Prof Hank Wolfe says.
