The Week In Review for week ending Fri Aug 26 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.