Rugby – Kāpiti Independent

Easy Wins in the Sydney Double-header

All Blacks and Black Ferns dominant By Roger Childs The All Blacks didn’t score until the 38th minute and earlier […]

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Hail to the Superbly Coached Crusaders!

Second successive title By Roger Childs I think we all expected them to win: top of the table, highly talented […]

3 months | National Stories

Hurricanes blown away!

Christchurch rugby guru Richard Belton says The Hurricanes were strangely missing in action for much of the match. Not the […]

4 months | National Stories

Crusaders Look Like Champions

… they (The Crusaders) seem to be in a different class from everyone else. Melbourne sports correspondent, John Smith Predictable […]

4 months | New Zealand

Crusaders in the Ascendancy

An excellent spectacle By Roger Childs The Crusaders – Highlanders clash in Christchurch last evening was great advertisement for New […]

4 months | National Stories

Common Sense on Red Cards

14 v 15 spoils the game By Roger Childs Rugby fans and especially Welsh ones, will recall the semi final […]

5 months | Rugby

Ruthless All Blacks

The French: game and unlucky but well beaten By Roger Childs It was a very even game for 50 minutes […]

5 months | National Stories

Undercover Highlanders Smarter

Hurricanes not up to it, again By Roger Childs With the loss to the Crusaders behind them, the Wellington franchise […]

6 months | National Stories

Battle of the Rugby Titans

Top teams clash in Christchurch By Roger Childs It’s the Super Rugby match fans have been eagerly awaiting. At AMI […]

6 months | New Zealand

Clear Cut Rugby Superiority

New Zealand 40 Australia 0 By Roger Childs This is not a headline you’ll see in The Sydney Morning Herald […]

6 months | National Stories

STORY OF THE WEEK

Nursing tutor Denny McLeod, of Te Horo, says she’s appalled by the continuing slaughter of birds on the Kāpiti Expressway — and says the Transport Agency’s reaction to an earlier KIN story is inadequate.

She says: “Since sending you my letter and challenge to NZTA to erect bird netting to the guardrail to stop the ducks crossing, there have been many more deaths, with bodies littered on the side of the motorway as well as in the middle of the road.

Why doesn't the NZTA actually spend some money (it won't cost much) and actually do something?

Read the full story in our main column (October 23).

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

October, 2007: Citing the Terrorism Suppression Act, police arrested 18 people in raids linked to alleged weapons-training camps near the Bay of Plenty township of Rūātoki.

In addition to raids in Rūātoki and nearby Whakatāne on October 15, police executed search warrants in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Wellington after 12 months of surveillance of activist groups.

Among those arrested was Tūhoe activist Tame Iti. Police claimed Iti was involved in running military-style training camps in the Urewera Ranges and was planning to establish an independent state on traditional Tūhoe land.

Only Iti and three others were brought to trial in February 2012, on charges of participating in a criminal group and possessing firearms. The jury could not agree on the former charge, but all four were found guilty of firearms offences. Two received nine months’ home detention and the other two – including Iti – were sentenced to 2½ years in prison.

In 2013 the Independent Police Conduct Authority found that police had ‘unnecessarily frightened and intimidated’ people during the raids. In 2014 Police Commissioner Mike Bush apologised for mistakes made during the raids.