October 30, 2009
Happy Anniversary Hawke’s Bay
By Andrew Frame
You’ve seen a lot, haven’t you? You may remember when a young Lieutenant named James Cook sailed into your bay 240 years ago (on Monday 12th October to be precise) and named you after his boss, Edward Hawke, the First Lord of the Admiralty. It’s probably one of the reasons [...]
October 29, 2009
Rodney Hide’s biting review of local government, which signaled a drastic re-write of the Local Government Act to curb local spending and provide greater fiscal transparency, has been de-fanged by the National Cabinet.
What has emerged from Cabinet is a marshmallow.
The ACT party media release summarizes the reforms as follows:
Councils being encouraged to focus on core [...]
October 28, 2009
Last week, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced a package of reforms that are promised to save $700 million in backroom savings, which would be transferred to frontline health care. By way of illustration, Ryall challenged the need for 21 District Health Boards to each have separate, different, disconnected IT systems.
Said Ryall: “To better focus on [...]
October 26, 2009
New legislation has been passed that would empower police to seize and destroy the vehicles of boy racers who are charged a third time for street-racing, having two prior offences in four years.
This more punishing measure is enthusiastically championed by Police Minister Judith Collins, earning her the new nickname “Crusher” Collins.
Said Collins in a press [...]
October 21, 2009
Apparently so.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the District Health Board, the acting chief executive, Warrick Frater said the DHB would not contest the appeal that has been lodged against the Hastings Council’s recently-approved resource consent. The consent, sought by DHB, would permit the Springhill Addiction Centre to operate from a former retirement home on Tomoana Road, [...]
October 20, 2009
Help me understand this.
According to a recent report in the DomPost:
“New Zealand’s biggest science provider, AgResearch, says it is having to find work in other countries to meet Government demands for a 9 percent dividend. At the same time, the Government is cutting funding for pastoral science and greenhouse gas research.
Chief executive Andrew West said [...]
October 19, 2009
Last week, I received my latest rates invoices from the Regional Council and the Hastings District (the latter bill so big I need installments).
The Regional Council tab was about $277. For that, I get — if all goes well — quasi-protected waterways, clean heat and warm homes (and cleaner air), a well-functioning port (actually the [...]
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