Recent stories
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The house for Hospice
The old Ebbet car yard on the corner of Ruapehu and Paoroa Hapi Street came alive on Monday this week as a house-building fundraiser got underway for Lake Taupō Hospice.
Former Hospice Shop manager sentenced
Former retail operations manager at Lake Taupō Hospice Trust, Mark Wisniewski, 64, has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for his theft of just over $62,000 from the organisation between 2016 and 2024.
Budget beating op-shop
They were lining up at the door for the opening of Lake Taupō Hospice’s second Taupō store on Tuesday this week.
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