Police

There were no serious crashes on Bell Block roads and just one person died on New Zealand roads over the long weekend, making it potentially the lowest Labour Weekend road toll on record. The road toll period finished at 6am today, Tuesdat 29/10/2013 at which point police communications centres in the North and South islands said they were just aware of one fatal crash.However, one woman was yesterday in Wellington Hospital’s intensive care unit after a crash, and there were plenty of other injuries around the country. The previous low since records began was two, recorded in 1977. This weekend’s toll came after a 16-year-old boy died after the car he was in hit a tree near Katikati in Bay of Plenty early yesterday, Monday 28/10/2013.

Bell Block Police wish to advise that the group known as the “Bitumen Bandits” have returned to New Zealand in the last week. Back in April 2013 this group were carrying out various work in New Zealand including roof restoration, painting, tree felling and most commonly sealing and paving of driveways. The work was of extremely poor quality and a large number of the driveways started to disintegrate a few days after completion of the work. The group is made up of at least three men Albert ORCHARD, Joe ORCHARD, and Mark HAWKEN. They also use a number of aliases with one of them being Albert CALLADINE. They may also be trading under the name of Will Pave Ltd. Please be aware that the standard of workmanship, and value for money is at best dubious. If you are dealing with these persons BE AWARE.