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Vol. 30 No 13, July 15, 2021 www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz Published every Thursday Fortnight Phone and Fax 761-7016 A/H 761-8206 for Advertising and Editorial ISSN 2324-2337, ISSN 2324-2345 Inside Person helicoptered to hospital A person with moderate injuries was taken by helicopter to Taranaki Base Hospital when a car left the road near Opunake on Saturday July 10 shortly after midday. Two other young people, also in the vehicle, were The BNZ ATM story taken by ambulance to continues page 5. Taranaki Base hospital. The accident took place in Ihaia Road, 7 kilometres out of Opunake. The vehicle, which was travelling away from Opunake, left the road, missed a deep a drain and ended up facing back to Opunake in a paddock. Constable Kylie Brophy from the Opunake Police, who attended the accident, said all three were wearing seat belts. Portrait of eminent The accident happened on scientist by Taranaki a straight piece of road and artist. Page 7. police are investigating the The helicopter with patient leaves the scene. cause. Two robbers hit service station The Opunake Service Hawera, turned around and took four minutes, and it took “Something like this in the wider Taranaki area. Station was robbed at around parked outside the main door, us four hours to clean it up. requires the community “A suspect vehicle has been 5am on Monday morning which they smashed through In the last five years we have to look after each other. If seen at a couple of them. We with a large hammer. never had this happen in our anyone knows anything or has would like gas station owners A service station “They broke the cigarette business in Opunake,” any suggestions, they should and dairy owners to keep spokesperson said the two cabinet , and took all he brand He estimates between talk to us or the police,” the in mind that cigarettes are robbers were aged between new stock we had, mobile $8000 and $10,000 worth of spokesperson said. especially a target. We would 25 and 35, wore gloves and accessories and cigarette stock was taken. Senior Constable Matt like to hear from anyone who had their faces covered . lighters,” the spokesperson The robbers left the scene in Goodman of the Opunake has seen suspicious activity They arrived in a Highlander said. ”The glass shattered all the direction of Hawera from Police says there have been around gas stations after A new take on an old vehicle from the direction of over the shop. The robbery which they had come. a number of similar incidents hours.” story page 16. Gearing up for the finals The Coastal Rugby Premiers is the Coastal way,” said and Coastal Division 2 teams the proud Club Captain. have made the Taranaki Kelvin said they had a finals which are due to be really good culture in the played at the weekend. club. “Everyone knows Coastal Rugby managed to everyone,” he said adding get four out of five teams in the there was a “great spirit.” semifinals and, speaking to The fifth team, the Coastal Rugby Club Captain Women’s Rugby team, Kelvin Weir a week ago, he came third in the Taranaki Historical finds on was “really chuffed” at how wide competiton and Coastal farm. Page 11. the season had gone thus far. finished a month ago. To get four out of five The Coastal Rugby Coastal Rugby teams in the players train every Tuesday semi finals for Taranaki is and Thursday night and “pretty cool” he said. It’s play on Saturdays. also quite rare and a real There are around 130-150 reward after the end of 14 players throughout the season. regular season’s games. If any men or women “The boys have been are wanting to play rugby training since the middle next season come along of February,” said Kelvin. to the 2022 preseason “To see all the hard work training, urges Kelvin. come to fruition is very The Coastal Premiers play satisfying. It makes you feel Inglewood at the TET Stadium quite proud to be part of it.” at Inglewood on Saturday He added they had had July 18 starting at 2:45pm. a lot of injuries this year Coastal Division 2 play and said the players had all Okaiawa on Saturday Eltham Lion takes the proved good in adversity. Coastal Rugby Club Captain Kelvin Weir at the Rahotu Domain on Coastal Rugby at the TET Stadium at helm. Page 17. “They’re battlers which training night. Inglewood at 12:30pm. See us online at www.opunakecoastalnews.co.nz FOR ADVERTISING OR EDITORIAL PLEASE PHONE/FAX (06) 761-7016 2 NEWS AND VIEWS Thursday, July 15, 2021 OPUNAKE & COASTAL NEWS wanted to indicate my dedica- control of the world’s medical safe, trials are carefully moni- Cashless society fraternity and the Main tored, if you don’t get the jab Your article on the missing tion to Rugby. LLettersetters ttoo thethe Stream Media. The money you are somehow a danger ATM in Opunake, and a letter I watched about ten minutes is huge. Who owns the big to others, anything else is EEditorditor to the editor regarding the loss of the above mentioned game pharmaceutical companies? misinformation and so on.” of chequeing services may but, after hearing the facts Billionaires with an agenda. I believe this is unacceptable Send your your views to: have a common thread. given by the commentators Last year Pfi zer made a loss. and bordering on criminal, Letters to the Editor The Holy Grail of banks is on TV, I changed channels to This year they are looking at as the unsuspecting public 23 Napier Street, Opunake. to achieve a cashless society. watch another comedy show. a minimum 26 US$billion is misled. Fax: (06) 761 7016 This effectively traps people While on a whinging note profit, because of the vax There are numerous cases into using their online ser- I want to forward food for email: [email protected] rollout. The vaccine trials are of adverse events and deaths vices, and any fees they may thought on players leaving You are welcome to use a pseudonym but must almost exclusively carried involving the jab in New choose to charge. the field for possible head supply your name and address to us. out by the vax companies, Zealand. Why has the media A recent attempt by the injuries, actions to which I and they are removed from not reported these cases? We Australian Government to do not disagree but highlights any responsibility for damage still hear about car accident outlaw any cash transactions the point I wish to make to with this vax. Previously they fatalities. Could it be the “Let’s create your business growth over $10,000 (punishable by readers. I’m all for sport but have been successfully sued $55 million given to the NZ strategy together” two years’ imprisonment) boxing is a sport where the for $billions for the human media last year is playing it’s shows how serious they are aim of participants is to hit Your only local community accounting firm damage they have caused. part? Lynda Wharton’s, ‘The about this. the opponents head, knock This vax didn’t even get Health Forum NZ’ page on This arrogant power grab them unconscious, an act trialled in real terms. Facebook, while censored was stopped by effective not accepted by other sports. Normally a vaccine has heavily, is one of a very few citizen action, but one can And to cap it off boxing is an several years of trials, using sources of real information. be sure this agenda is still on Olympic sport. animals, and then consenting The wonders of the human Accounting for the future, today the table. I reiterate, it is food for humans. By creating a bit immune system are being The people of NZ should be thought for you the readers. Hawera - Opunake - Patea - 06 278 4169 of hysteria, the medical overlooked and we are all ever alert to any such attempts Gordon (Mac) Sole Opunake Office hours: profession has been hijacked being trained to believe we of governmental over-reach. Hawera Mon & Thurs: 9am-3pm, Wed: 10am-3pm into mass vaccination of require our immune system to Cash is legal tender, and any the NZ public. The normal be suddenly altered, possibly banishment amounts to a fl a- Respect our process, which helps ensure irreparably, by a gene therapy grant attack on civil liberties. so-called minimal harm from vax, whose inventor Dr Rob- R. Herdson province’s a jab, has been circumvented, ert Malone, has indicated is Manaia name bypassed. not as safe as he intended and Not a fair contest Like Mr McAlpine I am Government controlled should have been discontin- I write with some disgust always hearing people from employees are saying it is ued. We have no idea of the over the All Black game our province using this slang all OK, rather than reliable long term consequences. versus Tonga on July 3. The word Naki for Taranaki science. Most doctors are Singapore has just an- Tongans did not fi eld their which really sends a a real flat out looking after their nounced they no longer have true team as a number of their chill of anger up my spine. patients, relying on normal a pandemic, they have an players were unable to be in It’s extremely interesting scientifi c processes, unaware ‘Endemic’. New Zealand because of the where Mr McAlpine found their trust is in a corrupted This means they are going COVID epidemic.