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I’ve just returned from a pleasant break in the South Island and two of the joys were L Wakatipu (Queenstown) and...
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Sculpture a sad tribute to wasted money

How fitting – the Hemo Gorge sculpture. All over the world there are monuments to failure. The Germans kept the...
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Complaints re PPP Contract and Potential Breach of the Overseas Investment Act

5 August 2020   The Hon Nanaia Mahuta, Minister of Local Government, nanaia.mahuta@parliament.govt.nz;   CC The Hon David Parker, Attorney...
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Rip-off or Knock-off?

  Now that the long awaited Hemo Sculpture is in place, I can’t decide whether its a rip-off or a...
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Misappropriation or misconduct?

A search of the companies office register reveals Councils’ business interests which are usually infrastructure or core services or for...
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The untangled structure

  It appears that Rotorua District Council is in partnership with Takarua Mutu 25.5% and Skyline 25.5%. Angry that ratepayers...
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