New $300 Taranaki hospital wing

Sounds awfully cheap!

DarthKermit:New $300 Taranaki hospital wing

 

Sounds awfully cheap!

Told you that they read GZ, as they seem to have corrected it now!

Stuff: "NZ coffee: are we being ripped off?".

Naturally, since the headline is a question, the answer is no. They go on to answer it with this gem:

"Asia was overall the most expensive region to buy a coffee. The least expensive part of the world was Asia, followed by Oceania."

NZ Herald: "A newly-arrived prisoner at Ngawha Prison suspected to have measles will be isolated until his immunity status is be confirmed."

A story about the Minister of Defence issuing an RMA noise exemption for RNZAF operations at Whenuapai is illustrated with this picture

Showing a Russian IL-76 freighter, which is nothing to do with the NZDF.
If it's even Whenuapai

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116574054/defence-minister-trumps-environment-court-decision-on-whenuapai-airbase-engine-noise

I stole this of Facebook but it looks genuine.  Actual article has now been fixed.  I'm guessing the original may have come about from sort of speech-to-text app that doesn't understand maori placenames.

Even if it was done using dictation, you'd think that they'd have a list of disallowed words!

In any case, even the council itself can't agree on how to pronounce it; there's at least one official sign listing "Wakatani" phonetically.

Wonder if they'd use phonetics for a place like foo king in Austria.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=

Youths wreck havoc down Lower Hutt street, filmed doing 'bombs' on cars

I thought it was "wreak havoc". I must have been wrong all along.

Technofreak:

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=

 

Youths wreck havoc down Lower Hutt street, filmed doing 'bombs' on cars

 

I thought it was "wreak havoc". I must have been wrong all along.

 

Yep, nothing like an idiom to give away a  "journalists"  age...or lack of education