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Police acknowledged the reduction — but said that any number of road deaths was too high.
Police were called to Dinosaur Park at around midnight to reports of about 300 young people gathered there with multiple fights breaking out.
Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay was struck by a vehicle at around 2.10am while on foot patrol in the Buxton Square carpark with colleague Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming, who died of her injuries.
Police responded to the incident at an address on Rorotu Ave in Karaka just after 4am this morning.
The Navy vessel sank after it ran aground due to a "series of human errors" on a coral reef off Samoan coast before it caught fire on October 6 last year.
The 34-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder in relation to the violent incident at a east Hamilton address yesterday.
Earlier this morning, Transpower declared a Grid Emergency in the South Island for a number of hours due to the onset of "a severe Geomagnetic Induced Current event".
Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming and her colleague Senior Sergeant Adam Ramsay were struck by a vehicle while on foot patrol in the Buxton Square carpark at around 2.10am on New Year's Day.
Health New Zealand says high levels of faecal bacteria were found in consecutive samples taken from Selwyn River/Waikirikiri at Glentunnel and at Whitecliffs.
Emergency services responded to the crash involving a vehicle and a bicycle near Pond Rd around 10.35am.
