The boy was flown from Palmerston North Hospital, to Starship, and is still in critical condition.

Police are speaking with locals near the Seabury Ave house.

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29 Jun: A person has died in a serious single vehicle crash in Central Hawkes Bay's Waipukurau

27 Jun: A 27-year-old woman's charged with unlawfully taking a motor vehicle after allegedly stealing a courier van on Napier's Station Street this morning

27 Jun: Hastings' water-park Splash Planet is going to test itself as just a park after suffering financially last summer

21 Jun: A well-known hoarders home in Hastings is smouldering, after an inferno overnight

21 Jun: A man's been arrested following a suspicious house fire in Levin

21 Jun: One person has been found deceased following a house fire in Marton this morning

20 Jun: A person's in a serious condition, after a potential stabbing in Hastings' Flaxmere

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