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Samoan chief Joseph Auga Matamata appeals conviction for human trafficking and slavery

The Hastings-based Samoan chief, Joseph Auga Matamata, was last month sentenced to 11 years in prison for illegally bringing 13 Samoans to New Zealand and exploiting them over a 25-year period.

"The Crown has filed an appeal against the sentence imposed on Mr Matamata. The Crown challenges both the length of the sentence as manifestly inadequate and the absence of a minimum period of imprisonment," Crown Law said.

Career Plan

 My Career Plan

Here is one of my career plans : My career plan is to graduate college. After I graduate college I hope to have 5 yrs of architecture experience. To become a registered architect, you usually need a Bachelor of Architectural Studies and a Master of Architecture (Professional). You also need to be registered with the New Zealand Registered Architects Board, which requires you to complete three to five years work experience post-graduation. 

Shrink-Ray

 “AHHHHHHH” the kids screamed. A giant boulder was chasing them down a hill. 2 days ago a man named Suli invented a machine to shrink anything . He called it the Shrink-Ray. Suli is an amazing and genius scientist who worked for NASA. He created the shrink-ray for astronauts so that they could shrink any asteroids heading to earth.

Suli has 3 kids , two boys and one girl. Their names are Tevita , Sika and Charlee.

Tevita was the courageous brother & Sika was the cheeky brother. Charlee the girl was the Smartest and maturest of them all. On september the 2nd it was National Bring your kids to work day. John took them all to work , he showed them all the cool and exciting gadgets . 

While they were on the tour Tevita and Sika decided to wander off and play with the cool gadgets. Sika got bored so he left Tevita to go find cooler gadgets. Sika ended up being lost , he was searching for an exit door but there was none to be found. He walked quietly backwards [foot steps] …. Boom Tevita bumped into him ,  they went unconscious.  

A few minutes later they woke up to see Charlee tipping water on them. They yelled at Charlee saying “why’d you do that for?”. She replied “ I was trying to wake you guys up”.

After that they all went looking for their dad. But while they were looking for him Sika wandered off again. He went to the Restricted Area only for staff only. The Sign Specifically said “Danger , Staff only”. Sika ignored the sign and walked in. In the room had all the dangerous weapons and even Suli’s Shrink-Ray. When Sika went up to the shrink-ray a loud sound occured. 

[CREAK] The door opened , it was Charlee and Tevita. They all gathered around the shrink-ray machine. Sika accidentally pressed a button and they all shrinked.

They all “Why is everything bigger” ...

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