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The horses might have been racing in Melbourne but the action in Rakaia on cup day was all on the screen and in the bar at the South Rakaia Hotel.
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P use suspected at murder house BY MICHELLE NELSON
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The Housing New Zealand property where a young man was murdered in September remains empty pending the results of methamphetamine tests. The property was vacated immediately after Tainui Wano, who was visiting the property, died of stab wounds on September 13. HNZ manager of chemical contamination Charlie Mitchell has confirmed the house at 21 McDonald Street is suspected to have been contaminated with meth. “We are waiting to receive those test
results before a decision is made to either re-let or decontaminate the property,” Mitchell said. If found to be contaminated HNZ will pursue the property’s former tenants for decontamination costs. “We will pursue tenants for all costs associated with this activity and look to suspend them from renting a Housing New Zealand property for the maximum 12-month period,” Mitchell said. The housing agency has copped some flak in recent months for its policy on evictions suspensions with the Ministry of Health issuing repeated warnings that its guidelines applied
only to properties where P had been manufactured and were not intended to monitor homes where the drug had been smoked. More than 122 HNZ tenants have been evicted because trace amounts of meth have been found in the properties they occupied at levels determined by the ministry to pose no health risk, according to State House Action Network (SHAN).
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