Nine To Noon

Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua

Nine To Noon

Show Notes

Kelly has more on a bottle store worker injured in what police say was the start of a crime spree, the young Rotorua women who has gone from from opera singing to the Black Fern's Sevens squad, the saga of a trapped kitten and attempted car invasions.

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