WANGANUI'S young people are asking for more detailed and earlier drug education for them, their peers and younger brothers and sisters. Wanganui Youth Services Trust manager Jean Benge said yesterday that after publicity about the rising rate of the serious sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhea last month, more than 300 young people booked appointments with the service. With so many new clients booked in, trust staff decided to draw up a general questionnaire asking what did they consider their needs were and how did they need the service to help them. [continues 205 words]
Queenstown police were mourning the loss of a close colleague and friend yesterday after a light plane, a Cessna 172, crashed in Gibbston Valley on Saturday killing the pilot and his police officer passenger. Detective Travis Hughes, 37, of Queenstown, and pilot Chris Scott, 38, of Whakatane, were both killed instantly, police said yesterday. Southern police district commander Superintendent George Fraser said the two men were on a routine cannabis reconnaissance flight in the hills behind the Gibbston Valley. Saturday's flight was part of an annual national police programme throughout New Zealand that had been running for 20 years, Mr Fraser said. [continues 381 words]
