I've been told that I will need to fit a head restraint for the centre fold down seat in a '95 Toyota Hiace van in order to get a WOF?
Apparently it's a new rule?
Is this correct? 
The seat has never had a head restraint and there is no sensible way to fit one - can I be required to retrofit one?

Allegedly to make up for losses in their war on Ukraine. If they're anything like the old TV series, its probably not going to help much.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300...in-ukraine

"Russia has suffered such heavy losses in Ukraine it is now calling up soldiers who have been retired for up to a decade, according to Western intelligence.

BritainÔÇÖs Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that Moscow was seeking to "bolster troop numbers with personnel discharged from military service since 2012".
"Russia will likely continue to throw badly damaged and partially reconstituted units piecemeal into offensive operations that make limited gains at great cost," it said.

Russia has suffered thousands of casualties since it invaded Ukraine on February 24 and its spring recruitment drive will not deliver trained soldiers for 12 months."



Ukraine has supporters from some unlikely areas, though including some from the film industry.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300...ine-forces

Most people treat lichen and moss as they would a noxious weed or dose of the clap.
they hate it.they try to rid themselves of it.
i embrace it.
i think its grand.
New Zealand is the lichen capital of the world, and has more species of lichen than anywhere else on earth.
More than 2000 differing types.

i have a lovely drift of it growing on my driveway, and ive got the mailbox right where i want it.
isnt it gorgeous?

this side has blooms

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He's now changed his mind & says fair pay isn't the end of civilisation as we know it, the sky will not fall & employees won't have the ability to take industrial action during  negotiations, as he wrongly claimed.


Interesting that its invariably parties on the right who aren't often keen on employees benefiting.


https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...ation.html

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/...wkm2yKoY 

Would anyone know how I could contact Scotties Crafts in Auckland please.  Thank you

This lot do seem to have a happy knack of spreading discord wherever they go. Its now autumn; they surely don't intend to remain there through winter - they'll be freezing bits off if they try that.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1282906...llage-gone

"Campers occupying the Christchurch red zone have been aggressive towards locals, cutting up trees, defecating in bushes, and lighting fires, say residents who want them gone.

Saw a mouse running down the skirting on monday.
we live on a rural fringe, paddocks behind us, so every year about this time they start sneaking in.
one year it was rats *shudder*
put the traps down last nite got one in each before bed, and one in each again this morning.
erk alors a pestilence. a horde. 
it doesnt help we leave doors and windows open all day and night.
we do not want a cat.
im not keen on them.
id rather put up with the odd mouse.

and dr bloomfield is retiring his post.
standing ovation at the press conference im told.

i have tremendous respect for the man.
understated, calm, rational, confident. well spoken
he might have the best record on the planet for dealing with covid.
there wouldnt be many health tsars out there with a better record.

we couldnt have had a better person at the helm during this pandemic imo.
thanks doc, for a job well done.

Is set for June 18. Can't imagine that a cold winter's day will be great for turnout numbers, but hey, what you going to do... aside from staying in the position that you were voted in to do for a full term and not jump ship after less than two years possibly because you were worried that your party would win the election and that you would be the guy that would have to balance the books by slashing spending on things like health and education which would be that thing you would be remembered for and would no doubt get mentioned on the hologram news when you've passed away and they cut to grainy clips of you walking up and down the halls of the Beehive spliced with that one where your kid throws the ball at you and you drop it which makes you look hilariously uncoordinated even though you're probably not. They almost definitely won't finish the segment with that photo of you eating an ice cream with the words Simon Bridges and your birth and death years, but who knows how snarky the hologram news will be in the future?

Anyhoozle...

You'd expect that whatever potato National goes with will win, but by how much? They still have a month to pick their spud, but former deputy mayor, current real estate agent, and old white guy, Kelvin Clout is apparently keen.

The Labs are sticking with the capable List MP Jan Tinetti who managed to narrow the gap to under 2000 votes at the last election, but that might have had something to do with the trainwreck that was Judith Collins political career.

And of course there's Winston. Probably doesn't have enough clout these days to pull of an upset (and most of his previous voters have since shuffled off this mortal coil), but if he did run, that has a potential to dig into that blue/red vote.