Let’s talk Tukituki
February 29, 2008
Mark your calendar!
The HB Regional Council will conduct a public meeting on its management of the Tukituki River system. It’s set for Wednesday, March 12, 7:30-9:00 pm, at the Havelock North Community Centre.
Critics of the Council’s Tuki management pressed for this session, where the data and assessments of Council staff will be presented and, most [...]
The ax and the ecstasy
February 28, 2008
BayBuzz is reporting from two planets today.
“We’re sacked.” From Planet Surreal, Kevin Atkinson so announced that he and the HB Health Board had just been axed by Health Minister Cunliffe, who replaced these alleged miscreants with a Commissioner.
All done, as best anyone can tell, to send a message that duly elected Health Board members shouldn’t [...]
Yule to petitioners: you are children
February 27, 2008
In this week’s Guest Buzzmaker column, Mayor Yule tells those of us who want no further development of Ocean Beach that we are children.
He implies that we’re too simple-minded to comprehend all the complex “evidence” as to why the Council must compromise core principles and signal to independent commissioners that Council is prepared to accommodate [...]
Cabbages’ future looks patchy
February 26, 2008
Over the course of a few months this Buzzmaker has noted a disturbing botanical trend across the Bay.
Too many of our beloved cabbage trees – Tī kōuka – are hanging their heads (three relatively young trees in my street alone) in a rather sickly fashion, seemingly just weeks away from taking their last breath.
The fear [...]
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