“Concerns over alcohol-fuelled violence as rebuild workers move into Kaikoura”

We’re advising tourists and migrants alike to give Kaikoura a wide berth over the next 18 months or so as the township turns into the NZ equivalent of an Australian “mining camp”. Around 400 workers are due to flood in to the small township (est. pop. 2,080) to start on reconstruction work. “Alcohol fuelled violence…

Area 64

Updated 16 March 2016 Recently E2NZ.org has been getting some traffic from backlinks to reddit discussions about something known as Area 64 (presumably based on the international area code for New Zealand?) and we’re aware of some defamatory remarks that have been made about either the E2NZ.org site admin or our members. Area 64 and…

NZ Wine Fails to Make the Grade, Rejects Headed for Asian Market

Another New Zealand product has been rejected overseas for failing to ‘make the grade’. Yesterday China rejected a consignment of water for having too much nitrite, today we learn a shipment of wine has been stopped by the EC for having too little alcohol. Stuff.co.nz reports that a 1,000 bottle consignment of Bannockburn Riesling, (Otago…