'Walking skeletons' cost farmer $53,000
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:10 2008
A Northland farmer has been fined $53,000 for keeping hundreds of starving cattle - some described as "walking skeletons" - on a property north of Wellsford. SPCA inspectors were called to the Topunui property run by Keith Thomas...

Named and shamed - the misery some parents inflict
New Zealand Herald
Fri Jul 25 05:00:00 2008
You can call your children what you like - as long as they're not named after Adolf Hitler, the Antichrist or anything likely to embarrass them in the playground. Jack and Ella were last year's most popular names for new babies,...

Girls' eggs taken as safeguard
Stuff
Fri Jul 25 05:00:00 2008
Some parents of child cancer sufferers are having their little girls' eggs frozen to give them the chance of having their own babies one day.

NZ cancer sufferers have eggs frozen in Australia (NZPA)
Yahoo Xtra
Thu Jul 24 22:39:32 2008
Some parents of daughters with cancer have taken their girls to Australia to have eggs frozen to give them a chance at future parenthood, a child cancer specialist says.