Lost Trampers Rescued

The two trampers who went missing in bush north-west of Nelson say they spent nearly two weeks without food - and their only saving grace was water they had found.

An intensive search and rescue operation had been underway to find Dion Reynolds and Jessica O'Connor, who have been in Kahurangi National Park since May 8.

Dion Reynolds revealed that he had only realised the pair were walking in a loop around a Manuka forest after he recognised one of his own footprints in the mud.

"We went up the river for two days and made our first campsite, and pretty much the first thing that started going wrong is we ended up burning our socks, I burnt three out of the four socks that I'd had after the river crossing."

The next day as they carried on they realised they had made more progress than they expected to.

"We looked at our map and what we thought was the waterfall that we got to wasn't what we got to really. We decided to go up the hill and thought we'd cut across the track and carry on down towards the lake.

"We thought we were going to just carry on heading east up the hill in the same direction that we were, but obviously it wasn't."

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Covid-19 Update

 

The government is putting limits to large gatherings and has also said there is no time frame moving into level one. Mr Bloomfield has advised that people download the covid app. He says privacy issues are being dealt with. He has also advised no fake contact when sign up as they need to contact you. Bloomfield has advised business workers and owners to use the app. There has been no new cases so all together there is 1,503 confirmed cases, 1,447 recoveries and 21 deaths so far.

Locked up under lockdown: Police raid gangs, seize drugs, guns and $1.2m in cash

Up to $1.2 million in cash, drugs and firearms have been seized by Police in raids on gangs - as the country was under coronavirus lockdown.

While members of the public went in lockdown in late March, authorities continued efforts to crack down on organised crime.

More than 100 search warrants around the country resulted in nearly 50 firearms being seized and more than 90 people being arrested in the last two months and over the period of alert levels 4 and 3.

Gangs targeted in that time were the Comancheros, Mongrel Mob, Black Power, Nomads, Head Hunters, Rebels, King Cobras, Mongols and the Tribesmen.

A total of 25kg of methamphetamine, 30kg of cannabis and small amounts of cocaine and other drugs such as MDMA, GBL and LSD were seized.

A whopping $1.2m in cash was found in the raids. Those arrested face more than 250 charges.

Detective Superintendent Greg Williams, manager of the Police's national organised crime group, said: "The activities these groups take part in cause harm in our communities."

Five people were arrested after search warrants were carried out in Auckland and Tokoroa.

In that case, hundreds of dollars in cash were recovered; as well as methamphetamine and rifles.