Sentencing on cards
A checkout operator who staged a fake supermarket heist in Whangarei with her boyfriend will be sentenced on Tuesday. Jade Kaire-Laybourn has admitted charges of burglary and giving a false statement of crime. She and her boyfriend Tuki Hanlon staged the drama at Countdown Tikipunga on October
17 where she handed over cash after he threatened her. Hanlon was jailed for 11 months in December.
Green MP talks food
Green MP Steffan Browning will be in the Mid North on Monday and Tuesday to talk about the Food Bill and how it could affect markets, small growers and people trading plants and seeds. He will be at Kerikeri Organic, 1188 SH10 (near the top of Bulls Gorge), Kerikeri, from 10am to noon onMonday, and at Rawene Service Centre the next day from 2-3pm.
Submission hearings
Four days of submission hearings will be held next week on the Far North District Council's draft Long Term Plan which, among other things, proposes a user-pays rating system in which residents pay the capital cost of sewerage schemes they are hooked up to. Hearings will take place from 9am on Monday, May 14, and Tuesday, May 15, in the council chambers on Memorial Ave, Kaikohe; then from 9am on Wednesday, May 16, in the banquet room of Te Ahu Centre in Kaitaia; and from 8.30am on Friday, May 18, at Kerikeri Sports Complex next to the Heritage Bypass.
Dogged determination
Competition hotted up when the stormy conditions on Tuesday were replaced by sunshine yesterday at the North Island sheep dog trial championships at Te Ahuahu, near Ohaeawai. Northland Sheep Dog Trial centre media officer Chris Robertson said only three Northlanders remained on the leader board at 1pm yesterday - Murray Child and Frank, from Maungakaramea , in the straight hunt, and both Kenny Whittaker with Doc, from Okaihau, and Owen Finlayson and Lady, from Maungakaramea, in the short head and yard.
