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Pukeoware School have had a boost to their sports programme after the ANZ Bank came to the party for their netball teams. PAGE
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Fishers help Coastguard
Counties Manukau Sport Fishing Club members have thrown their support in behind the Waiuku Coastguard as part of the month-long Mayday Appeal.
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Centenary celebrated
100 years of worship for the Waiau Pa Presbyterian Church was marked with a number of events over the weekend.
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“Boom! … it just went up” Waiuku resident Jaimee Smyth was talking with a customer at the business where she works last week when they saw smoke rising over the township. Two minutes later, the young Waiuku mother was frantically racing home after a call to say there was a blaze in her driveway and flames were about to hit her house. “I thought I was losing my home,” she said, “it was the worst feeling of my life.” The drama unfolded when a friend called through to the house to pass on a message. Parking in the driveway, the man lit a cigarette before getting out of the car, not realising that the vehicle was filled with fumes from a can of Avgas (racing fuel), which had been in the back seat of the vehicle. “He lit a smoke and, boom! Up it went,” Jaimee says, adding that the man had no time to even grab his wallet or any of his possessions
before the car was engulfed in flame. Despite burns to his arm, the man escaped with virtually no injury from the fire, but three homes nearby were at risk of being burned by the large flames erupting from the car.
“We were very lucky,” Jaimee says, “if it had been windy it could easily have caught the houses nearby.” The vehicle, which had been parked further up the driveway, rolled back down as the flames ate through brake and handbrake cables, Jaimee says, eventually coming to rest against a fence, which promptly caught fire as well. Members of the Waiuku Volunteer Fire Brigade, as well as police, attended the scene and their speed contained the blaze. “The brigade was there very quickly, God, they’re great,” Jaimee said. The fire came just days after the New Zealand Fire Service used the example of a Waiuku house fire to warn of the dangers of unattended ovens, now, Jaimee says, another reminder might be due. “Don’t light a smoke when you’ve got a can of race gas in the back seat,” she says drily.
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An investigation is underway into an incident in which a 36 year old man received stab wounds and a serious head injury at a private address in Jellicoe Road Tuakau on Sunday. The man was discovered by a family member at approximately midday and taken to
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Middlemore hospital where he was placed in intensive care. CIB attended the scene and are continuing with their enquiries. The property remained cordoned off from all access overnight. Acting Detective Sergeant Lee
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Warden of Counties Manukau Police says the investigation is still in its early stage of enquiry.” It is too soon to determine the motive for the attack and Police will be conducting at thorough investigation,” he says. “We are interested in hear-
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ing from anyone who may have any information relating to the incident.” Anyone who has information should call Police on 09 261 1300 or 111. Information can be provided anonymously to the organisation Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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