{"id":519441,"date":"2026-07-10T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519441\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:46:29","slug":"grenade-alert-at-whangarei-port-revealed-to-be-harmless-toy-nzdf-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519441\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenade alert at Whang\u0101rei port revealed to be harmless toy, NZDF says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New Zealand Defence Force says an item found aboard a ship in Whang\u0101rei turned out to be a toy hand grenade. Photo \/ 123RF<\/p>\n

A grenade found aboard a ship at Whang\u0101rei\u2019s Port Rd earlier this week turned out to be a toy, the New Zealand Defence Force says. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson said the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team responded to a request from police after an \u201citem of concern\u201d was discovered on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe item was investigated and determined to be a toy hand grenade.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesperson said anyone who discovered a potentially dangerous item should always be cautious until the item was deemed safe by an expert. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do discover something that might be dangerous, remain clear of the item and contact New Zealand Police as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 8 Jul, 2026 11:17 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44096,41242,1975,5195,1403,3602,5760,1874,1867,118971,111,43,139,69,111462,29268,12860,312,17093,1961,61,24172,19054,686,1869,57767,80],"class_list":["post-519441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-aboard","tag-alert","tag-at","tag-be","tag-defence","tag-earlier","tag-force","tag-found","tag-grenade","tag-harmless","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzdf","tag-port","tag-revealed","tag-says","tag-ship","tag-this","tag-to","tag-toy","tag-turned","tag-week","tag-whangrei","tag-whangreis","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}