Sun baked cowpats made this fire very difficult to put out. "They just keep burning," said a fireman
Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include cowpats bursting into flames in Hawke's Bay, and why thieves are targeting rural letterboxes.
Burning roasted cowpats proved problematic at a large grass fire in Hawke's Bay.
Somebody stole a $100 cheque from a mailbox in Canterbury and
href="http://www.christchurchstar.co.nz/news/thieves-target-letterboxes-for-cheques/1736213/" target="_blank">cashed it for more than $10,000.
How long will it be before the job description, "postie", will disappear all together?
The latest plans to find a place where Rotorua's homeless can bunk down has fallen through.
