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Govt cannot continue to ignore truck safety
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:01 am Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party Darien FENTONHealth and Safety SpokespersonIain LEES-GALLOWAYTransport Spokesperson21 May 2013 Media ...
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Phone Survey to Find Out How Council Is Doing
Gisborne District Council is keen to find out what residents think about the services and facilities it provides and how easy it is to do business with. Residents throughout the district may get a phone call in the next week or so asking them to take part in Council's Annual Resident Satisfaction Survey.We have a responsibility to track how well our efforts are carrying through to ...
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New parking meters for Barnard St will give more flexibility
Patrons of Timaru's Theatre Royal and those using the South Canterbury District Health Board's outpatient services block in Woollcombe Street, will be among motorists to benefit from car parking changes planned in June for Barnard Street and Woollcombe Street.In a move to introduce more parking opportunity and fairer time zones of up to three hours, the Timaru District Council ...
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Heritage Partnership a Threat to Home Owners
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:23 am Press Release: Stephen Berry Heritage Partnership a Threat to Home Owners"Do you value what limited ability you have to make your own decisions about your own property? Do you want housing to become more affordable so your children do not face a life time of tenancy? If so, you should be wary of the partnership between Auckland 2040 and the Character ...
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Daniel Vettori set to replace New Zealands injured Bruce Martin
England New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori could return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury.Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of the squad for the two-Test series in England.But with Martin sidelined by the injury that prevented ...
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Agent suspended over false mortgage documents
An investigation into a fraudulent mortgage scheme in South Auckland has uncovered misconduct by a real estate agent, resulting in a nine-month suspension and $1000 in fines. Joanne Picknell's licence was suspended last week after the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal found her guilty of misconduct under the Real Estate Agents Act. The tribunal said Picknell left blank sale and ...
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Man found guilty of setting petrol station alight
A man was last night found guilty of setting fire to the Kaikoura Caltex petrol station. After a six-day hearing at the Blenheim District Court, a jury of five men and seven women took almost four hours to decide that Tony Clifford King was guilty of three charges of theft and one of arson, relating to events in February 2011. The Crown's case was that King, 47, stole the end-of-day ...
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DHB smoking ban saves lives court hears
The Waitemata District Health Board is defending its ban on smoking at Auckland psychiatric centres, saying it is in place to saves lives. Two former psychiatric patients are seeking to have the ban DHB's overturned, saying it is a breach of human rights. But the DHB says its smoking ban is in place to save lives and shouldn't be overturned by the courts. In the High Court in ...
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New species of sea urchins discovered in NZ waters
Scientists dusting off half-century old archives of sea urchins have discovered seven new species they didn't know existed in New Zealand waters. The dramatic finds include a clarification over the mystery of one giant deepwater species - whose only previous evidence of existence was destroyed when the Berlin museum it was housed in was heavily bombed in World War Two. The sea urchins, known as ...
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Babies still at risk bed sharing with non-smoking parents
Bed sharing multiplies a young baby's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome five times even if the parent is a non-smoker, according to new university research. The finding relates to adults who share a bed with their breastfed baby in the child's first three months, even if the adults do not smoke, according to the University of Auckland study. "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ...
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Power cuts affect 340 customers
At 5.25am today an area to the north of Rolleston was affected by a power cut. This cut was coincidental with heavy rainfall. Power was restored in approximately 2 hours at 7.29am. No equipment fault was found at the time however a subsequent power cut occurred at 9.08am and a fault was found at the top of one pole involving an insulator. The fault is now being repaired and power is ...
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Restorative Justice More Effective for Serious Crime
"The evidence does not support the view of Sensible Sentencing Trust spokeswoman Ruth Money, that restorative justice is only appropriate for low level offending" says Kim Workman, of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. "Much of the evidence points in the opposite direction." "If the Sensible Sentencing Trust is genuinely committed to reducing the number of victims in ...
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InternetNZ and AUT University Form Strategic Partnership
http://tinyurl.com/n2mmj8w InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) and AUT University's Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication (ICDC) have formed a strategic partnership that will see the organisations work more closely on Internet research initiatives.As part of the partnership agreement InternetNZ will provide AUT with $40,000 of funding for the 2013 World Internet Project ...
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Community leader joins board of Hawke’s Bay Opera House
A new appointment to the board of the Hawke's Bay Opera House has been announced.Chairman John Buck has confirmed the appointment of Michael Bain as a director on the board of the Opera House for a period of 3 years from July 1st 2013.Mr Bain is a community leader in the education sector. He has served on a number of education-related national committees and reference groups and is ...
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How Sunday tabloid made a man out of a bum
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Kiwi gains on concern Bernanke may be cautious on US growth
The New Zealand dollar rose as the greenback weakened on trader bets that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday may say he is still cautious about the pace of recovery in the world's largest economy. The kiwi rose to 81.72 US cents from 81.20 cents at the 5pm market close yesterday. The trade-weighted index gained to 76.98 from 76.65 yesterday. The Dollar Index, a measure ...
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Lance Wiggs PwC man break cover with capital management company
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Call for property capital values to be dropped
The CV or capital value of a property is currently used to estimate the market value and can mean massive gains for the seller. But, industry commentator Alistair Helm from Properazzi told TV ONE's Breakfast programme there's too much reliance on the capital value of a property and that it shouldn't be used as a benchmark in sales. Helm said CV's are "out of ...
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Richard Burton Careful planning needed on apartments
Meetings involving hundreds of residents have been united in opposing the council's proposals on apartments. Photo / Brett Phibbs The draft Auckland Unitary Plan proposes a fundamental change to the urban fabric of Auckland. Multi-storey, high-density apartment buildings formerly reserved to the inner city and adjoining areas are now proposed to be permitted in some 56 per cent of ...
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Penny Hulse No chance of a city full of high-rise homes
To avoid Auckland sprawling like Los Angeles, we need to allow for more growth within and outside the urban area. Photo / Janna Dixon Half of suburban Auckland built up with three-storey apartments? Under the rules of the draft Unitary Plan it's about as likely as the sun setting in the east. In around 2016, the Unitary Plan is set to replace Auckland's eight district plans ...
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Martin Thrupp National Standards comparisons impossible
Across the six Rains schools being studied, judgments against the national standards were being affected by many sources of variation at national, regional, school and classroom level. Photo / Thinkstock The Government is again releasing National Standards data later this month in a new standardised format that will seem to make it easier to compare schools. In this respect the ...
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New Zealand milk hit by Sri Lankan DCD ban
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Blue whales making comeback in New Zealand waters
Blue whales, the world's largest animal almost hunted to extinction in the 19th Century, are making a comeback in waters off New Zealand, scientists say. A study in the waters of the South Taranaki Bight, to the west of the country's North Island, showed blue whales were passing through in numbers greater than expected, researchers with the government's National Institute of ...
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Green Party to Contest Ikaroa Rāwhiti By-Election
The Green Party has decided to contest the Ikaroa Rawhiti by-election.Nominations for the Green Party candidacy have opened and a candidate selection meeting will be heldon Friday 24 May."The Green Party has attracted a great deal of support from Maori communities over the years. We canreturn that support with a campaign to win Ikaroa Rawhiti with a great candidate," said Green ...
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Speech by Murray McCully at USNZ Pacific Partnership Forum
Thank you for being here. It's great to be back in Washington, and to see so many friends of New Zealand here today. I attended the first of these forums in April 2006 and each subsequent gathering. I want to reflect briefly on how the role of this Forum has changed, just as the NZ/US relationship has changed and continues to change. In thanking all of those who have contributed to ...
Auckland Feature Story
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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