26 Aug 2016

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Aug 26 2016

From The Week In Review, 1:00 am on 26 August 2016

The Government outlines the parameters of an inquiry into the contamination of the Havelock North water supply, New Zealand's Olympic athletes return home with a record medal haul, the Maori King makes an unprecedented attack on the Labour party, the former head of the Wellington Tenths Trust who's on trial in the High Court takes a break due to ill health, a controversial businessman and three others get the largest forfeiture order in New Zealand to date over alleged money laundering, a young Czech tourist survives three nights out in the open and almost four weeks in a freezing DOC hut, the Government wants children to ditch the classroom and study at home from on-line schools, Parliament's health select committee begins hearing submissions on a voluntary euthanasia petition, Parliament passes a law giving local councils power to decide on Easter Sunday trading, a Nelson woman carries a jar full of cannabis in to the country, Helen Kelly talks about her use of medicinal cannabis for terminal cancer, what a survey on alcohol consumption by young people in Wanaka found and pizza delivery by air is coming to Auckland.