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tuesday 10 May 2016
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Are you cruising for a bruising? Fight 4 Victory is back Andrew Board The region’s hardest hitting charity event is back and its organisers are putting the call out for willing contestants. Fight 4 Victory 3 will be held at the Trafalgar Centre on November 5, a little over 18 months after the event’s second edition. And the team behind the event say now that the venue is confirmed, they need to find those willing to pull on the gloves and get in the ring. Victory Boxing programme director Paul Hampton says they’re keen to hear from people who would like to give the event a go. “It is a big commitment to put yourself forward for this. Firstly, they need to strongly believe in what we’re doing here. But also someone who would be excited about
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Rest home manager backs postie
The postie who came under fire from her employer last week for not delivering “scam” mail to elderly residents says the support of the Ernest Rutherford resthome manager means a lot to her. Last week, the postwoman, who has not been named, was facing discipline from New Zealand
Post for not delivering the scam mail after she was first shown a US$180,000 lottery scam from Malaysia by a colleague who received it in his own letterbox. One of the areas affected was Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village. Manager Durham Quigley told Nelson Weekly that “we are
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very supportive and think she has done the right thing”. Durham also slated NZ Post for disciplining the postie, and allegedly threatening her with dismissal or
a jail sentence, for twice refusing to deliver the scam mail. “We are very pleased with her in regards to the protection of our residents,” Durham says. “She hasn’t opened the mail or redirected it or anything, she has just told people there is a scam. “We are getting this sort of stuff a
lot and she was just fulfilling her moral obligation to inform people. I’ve been really surprised at NZ Post and the stance they have taken – I think it’s ridiculous. “She, at least, has a moral conscience and it sounds like NZ
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