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Typically councils operate while in debt – but how much debt is too much?
If we read the last financial statements provided by our Councils (2014/2015 end of year debt: $144.4m for WDC alone) we notice that one item seems to be missing from the report: internal debt.
This is the year for local government elections, and it seems strange that central government continues to remain uninvolved in local elections – or does it?
Have you ever wondered why people don’t stick closely enough to the speed limit? Sometimes they’re irritatingly fast, sometimes irritatingly slow… .
Have you noticed the condition of our roads lately? When you’re on holiday, you may be more focused on where you’re heading rather than the road surface you’re driving on. Perhaps you're driving aggressively around trucks and looking at their body rather than the road surface.
PHOTO / My cat Ginger, on New Year's Day.
2016 is now here! Have you made any resolutions, and if so, what plans have you put in place to make them happen?
Christmas is nine days away; the new year is 15 days away. At this point, people within businesses and organisations sit back and have a think about who they are and where they’re going. They make resolutions for the coming year.
Northland has the same cross-section of government departments as all our other regions. There’s the education sector, health, transport, and local government. They deal with employee comings and goings every day, and in doing so, must follow the State Sector Act. I’m sure we all agree the best person should fit a job, meaning problems occur when people in power have just one person in mind for a job.
Isn’t it great when our local and regional councils fully support and hire locals to do jobs for them? At times you could say there's a bit of an Old Boys club going on, but that’s what happens when you have a population of 160,000 across our entire region. Most of our people either know or are related to one another.
SOURCE: PGFNZ
Lotto is gambling. There’s no other word for it.
Four out of every five adult New Zealanders gamble, and one in five gamble weekly or more, according to the Problem Gambling Foundation. Lotto, raffles, and Instant Kiwi are the most common forms, with Lotto played by over half of adult Kiwis at least once a year
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