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Today's cartoon from Voyager 2023 award winning cartoonist, Shaun Yeo.

Why are New Zealanders so cruel?

Southland and Otago players contest a lineout at the two sides’ NPC pre-season match at the Pioneer Rugby Club grounds in Gore yesterday afternoon. Otago were eventual winners 33-24. PHOTO: GAVIN HICKEY Highlanders winger Jona Nareki set up a 33-24 win for Otago in their pre-season game against Southland in Gore yesterday.

The Chatham Cup. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Otago University are heading into a big battle.

Mystics captain Michaela Sokolich-Beatson takes the ball as Tactix shooter Jess Allan tries to steal it during their Premiership game in Auckland in May. PHOTO: MICHAEL BRADLEY PHOTOGRAPHY It is crunch time in the ANZ Premiership. The Mainland Tactix host the Northern Mystics in the elimination final this afternoon for a spot in the final. Netball writer Kayla Hodge casts her eye on the much anticipated game.

Oamaru's Cape Wanbrow. PHOTO: ODT FILES The Waitaki District Council has Cape Wanbrow’s rabbits in its sights.

Meila Davis at fast-food chain Wing Stop, while in North Carolina for treatment earlier this month. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Queenstown's business community has swung in to help a local family fund potentially life-saving treatment for their daughter.

Celebrating a new mental health facility in Greymouth are (from left): Marie Mahuika-Forsyth (Ngati Mahaki), West Coast-Tasman MP Maureen Pugh, Rob Ojala (Health NZ), Te Rua Mason (Ngati Waewae), Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and Greymouth Mayor Tania Gibson. PHOTO: GREYMOUTH STAR Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey turned the first sod on the new facility in Greymouth this week, announcing a $7 million funding bump to get it over the line.

Dunstan High School’s new principal Andrew King hopes to build on the school’s strong foundations. PHOTO: RUBY SHAW Dunstan High School’s new principal wants the school to be a "beacon of excellence in education", as he completes his first week in the role.

Further detail on how the "transformation" of the Waitaki District Council will proceed in the next year has yet to emerge.

A large rock overhang, posing a risk to motorists in Livingston-Duntroon Rd, has been blasted. PHOTO: DAMIEN MCNAMARA A section of road near Duntroon has been reopened nearly six weeks after a cliff face collapsed.

This 24ha Kawarau View property on the market boasts about 600 to 700m of Kawarau River frontage; the red boundary lines around the four lots are indicative only. PHOTO: SUPPLIED You'd be hard-pressed to find a better-located large rural block for sale anywhere around Queenstown.

Almost 100 disc golfers will tee off at Queenstown’s Tucker Beach this weekend for the 11th annual Tucker Beach Rush disc golf tourney.

Arrowtown School has raced to the top of the junior skiing ranks for the second consecutive year.

Queensotwn’s Pieter Bulling competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED Former track cyclist Queenstowner Pieter Bulling still recalls his one Olympics in Rio in 2016 as "an amazing experience".

A celebration on Friday marked the Arrowtown Library’s 40th anniversary, however library services in the township commenced 116 years earlier.

PHOTO: SUPPLIED Queenstown Taxis driver and co-managing director Nik Bhatt this week became the company’s ‘3million man’.

Queenstown's Chilli Dips are literally embracing chilly dips.

PHOTO: MARTI FRIEDLANDER Next Thursday’s quarterly First Thursdays art event — run across six CBD galleries from 5 till 7pm — includes several must-sees.

Kiwi country musician Donna Dean. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Award-winning Kiwi country artist Donna Dean — described as a "songwriter’s songwriter" — is on her way to Queenstown.