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Ben Leahy

Reporter · NZ

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Ben Leahy

    Dishwasher at 12, NZ's youngest Domino's owner at 18 – now he oversees 149 stores (opens the original)

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    Liam Stops has gone from a dishwasher at Domino's aged 12, to youngest store owner at 18, and now a key figure in the New Zealand head office. He's pictured here with his older brother Kaedyn Stops and giving food away during the Covid pandemic. Dishwasher aged 12. New Zealand’s youngest-ever Domino’s store owner at 18. By 31, a key job with the top brass in head office. Hawke’s Bay’s Liam Stops has risen from tea towels to market manager for New Zealand. Now he’s helping to lead the chain’s tur

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Ben Leahy

    Developer wins $73m toxic feud - takes over family's 830ha Auckland coastal estate (opens the original)

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    Developer Evan Williams (inset) is now the owner of most of the 909-hectare Weiti housing development, south of Whangaparāoa, after a six-year legal battle. The main photo is from a real estate listing. A developer has pulled off a near-total takeover of a Taiwanese family’s vast slice of coastal Auckland land, emerging as the winner of a toxic six-year court battle and a $73 million “high-stakes” game of “chicken”. Evan Williams hadn’t owned a square metre of the Liu family’s land, near Whangap

  3. Article · Sep 19, 2026 · Ben Leahy

    ACC's big bet on Christchurch: The $1.5b plan for 315 sites near railways, airport (opens the original)

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    Christchurch Airport could have a host of new businesses and warehouses spring up next to it as a massive new investment drive is launched to create industrial land in key Canterbury locations. ACC is making its largest direct investment in the South Island through a new industrial property development and investment company – aiming to attract new jobs and businesses and build a $1.5 billion property portfolio. South Island leaders are calling it a major vote of confidence as land is set to be

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ben Leahy

    'Sheer luxuriousness': The NZ hotels Michelin has just named among world's best (opens the original)

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    The Michelin Guide team has crowned 28 New Zealand hotels as among the world’s best. That includes 10 two-key hotels - the equivalent of two stars for restaurants. Wallingford Homestead, an East Coast food destination stay, is the newest two-key restaurant, while Waiheke Island’s Delamore Lodge and Queenstown’s Rosewood Matakauri have moved up from one-key to two-key this year. Seven famous Kiwi hotels held onto their two-key status from last year, which was the first year New Zealand was includ

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Ben Leahy

    Swiss honeymakers took NZ farmland without permission – now owe millions (opens the original)

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    Swiss honey makers, the Knopf family – Jean-Baptiste, Raphael and Alexandre – caught the attention of the Overseas Investment Office. A Swiss beekeeping family took Kiwi farmland without permission – now their companies have collapsed owing millions, sparking a High Court fight over $1.9 million of honey. It’s led to a loved 774ha bush block near Whanganui being sold for $520,000, investors as far away as Moscow, Dubai and Andorra holding worthless shares, and farmers and the taxman at risk of g

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