A man was arrested, charged with intent to injure with reckless disregard and is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court next week, a police media spokesman said. While there is debate if the change would reduce the harm, Professor Emerita Jennie Connor from the University of Otago, an expert in alcohol harm, said the change would work.
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Addiction, a study of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, Connor looked at the effect of the 4am closing law. It showed an 11 per cent drop in weekend hospitalised assaults across the country, however, only a handful of premises were affected by the change as many closed earlier in the night.
Grainger said Countdown was discussing with Watts and Hughes how and exactly when the contractor could get back to work on the supermarket development. Countdown declined to elaborate on what the delay was, and was still deferring questions on those issues to the city council. Council chief customer officer Chris Dyhrberg previously told
Stuff he couldn’t discuss the cause of the delay while the council worked through the consent – and the council didn’t provide an updated response before this article went to print. Peter Blake said it had been a frustrating wait since the new supermarket was first announced eight years ago.
Moving forward to do what s right : Commissioners Tauranga Māori wards decision applauded
12 Apr, 2021 06:00 AM
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Tauranga City Council commissioner chairwoman Anne Tolley, and chief executive Marty Grenfell (background) in a meeting where Māori wards were discussed. Photo / George Novak
Tauranga City Council commissioner chairwoman Anne Tolley, and chief executive Marty Grenfell (background) in a meeting where Māori wards were discussed. Photo / George Novak
A decision to establish a Māori ward in Tauranga city has been described as just , good and doing what s right by some of those already serving in such a role. Today, Tauranga City Council commissioners
Tauranga council commissioners vote to establish Māori ward
11 Apr, 2021 08:34 PM
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Maori Ward decision by the Tauranga City Council
commisioners.
Tauranga City Council commissioners have unanimously voted to establish a Māori ward, becoming one of the first New Zealand councils to do so since the controversial legislation around it was tweaked earlier this year.
Commissioners meet today to discuss whether to adopt a recommendation to establish a Māori ward for the 2022 local body elections.
After public presentations - one for, two against - commissioners Bill Wasley, Stephen Selwood, Shadrach Rolleston and chairwoman Anne Tolley voted in favour.
He did not want to see ratepayers of Highbury and Ashhurst and other neighbourhoods having to subsidise the cost of improving council services in Tokomaru and Ōpiki. Smith acknowledged the links many people in Tokomaru and Ōpiki had with the city, and he thought there was more the city council could do for them, working with the Horowhenua District Council about cross-boundary services. The two councils already had shared service arrangements about library access. Another possibility could be a deal about recycling collections, which could see city council trucks travelling 10km down the road, rather than Horowhenua-based vehicles making the 40km trip.