November 13, 2008
Sydney has its opera house, Paris has a Tower, New York has Lady Liberty. And Napier has the wooden Sound Shell. This relic expresses all the sleepy backwater stands for. Iconoclastic as the structure is, it appropriately states that Napier is totally committed to looking backward. Napier is boldly defiant of the 21st century … [...]
September 19, 2008
The Code Uncovered The Elected Members Code of Conduct (EMCC) statement is reviewed and confirmed at each triennium by Local Councils. The final draft is binding and set in stone under The Local Government Act 2002, and supported by various other legislation. Compliance is monitored by Council at the ‘Conduct Review’ … an open annual [...]
August 9, 2008
Our twin cities are at present ‘in the heat of the moment’ on key projects – Hawke’s Bay Airport restructuring, Hastings’ Nelson Park re-development, the regional sports park, the Napier Museum & Art Gallery – whose outcome is going to impact the entire Hawke’s Bay for the foreseeable future. It is appropriate now to recap [...]









