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Katherine Edmond: Council Debt … Should We Worry?

August 4, 2010

Debt is a burden, however you look at it. If you borrow money, you have to pay it back and when it’s local authorities doing the borrowing, the responsibility for payback ultimately falls on ratepayers. Like most local authorities in New Zealand, Hawke’s Bay councils have a history of taking out loans to pay for [...]

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Katherine Edmond – Q & A with Martin Edmond

February 28, 2009

Katherine Edmond asks her brother about growing up and being a writer.  Martin Edmond appears at the Hastings Festival of Writers, March 20 – 22 Ohakune, where we lived as a family for 13 years, features strongly in your writing. Why do you think you have such a strong sense of place about the town? [...]

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