Correction

There was an error in John Blackwell’s Federated Farmers column (Oh joy, another rule’) on November 6. The statement that ‘Central government is about to weigh in on wetlands in the form of a draft National Environmental Standard on Indigenous Biodiversity (NES)’ should have referred to a draft National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity (NPS). Two more Far North dairies were hit by armed robbers over the weekend.

Two men, one armed with a rifle, possibly an air gun, the other with a hammer, entered the Waipapa Superette and Lotto at about 4.30pm on Saturday, while a youth armed with a filletting knife robbed a Kaikohe dairy at about 12.30pm on Sunday. A 15 year old has been arrested.

Detective Sergeant Chris Fouhy said while one of the Waipapa offenders “waved the gun up and down the aisle,” the other took cash from the Lotto till then jumped the counter and helped himself to the cigarette cabinet.

There were children in the superette at the time, a man at the Lotto counter, and an older woman came in just as the offenders were fleeing. They were in the store for less than two minutes.

The man holding the rifle had covered his face with a scarf or bandanna but it slipped down at one stage to reveal his face for the CCTV cameras.

They fled north on SH10 in a light-blue Nissan Primera saloon, with the registration plates GHC408, which were from another vehicle. The car did not pass through Kaeo.

One man had been arrested as of yesterday, but Mr Fouhy urged anyone who had seen the robbery or the getaway car