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An online threat against Auckland Council development agency Panuku, amid a backlash against road closures in Pukekohe, has led to a police complaint. Pukekohe Business Association chairman Rupert Ross said the associations members are concerned about Panuku’s roading changes in the town centre. Photo: Stephen Forbes The temporary trial in the town centre started on 24 April and is expected to end on 30 June. The changes include turning parts of King St and Devon Ln into one-way streets to r...

“Unfortunately, there has been a portion of this feedback that has been aggressive or inappropriate, including some that has targeted our staff. One case has been referred to the police.” According to Auckland Council, the offending post was made on its have your say site on the project on May 11. It read: “You have 72 hours from now to put our street back to where it was or our construction company will pick up your junk and take it away.” Stephen Forbes/Stuff Pukekohe Business Assoc...

Julian Savea has scored two tries to make him the Hurricanes all-time top scorer. Befitting a big Friday night out in Wellington, the Hurricanes sparked up, got the staggers, then rode the No 14 bus home. Led by a double from Julian ‘The Bus’ Savea which saw him overtake Christian Cullen and TJ Perenara as the Hurricanes’ record tryscorer, the hosts held off a feisty Melbourne Rebels by 35-13 at Sky Stadium. Savea’s fourth try in a fortnight of Super Rugby Trans-Tasman moved him to 57...

ASX outage to trigger market shake-up Save Share The stockmarket’s snap trading shutdown last year has forced financial regulators to develop plans to inject more competition against the Australian Securities Exchange and move to compel stockbrokers to connect to its competitor Chi-X. The Council of Financial Regulators had been investigating how to make competition with the ASX more effective, government officials said, after a software glitch caused the exchange to lock up thousands of b...

29 January 2021 London-based renewable energy company Cubico Sustainable Investments has emerged as the principal project investor for the 180-200MW Delburn Wind Farm set to be built in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, overlooking the site of the now closed Hazelwood coal-fired power station. Cubico, one of the world’s leading renewable energy infrastructure companies, announced on Wednesday that it had joined developer OSMI Australia as the joint development partner for the Delburn Wind Farm and...

Mail Force had a triple boost yesterday with £500,000 from a leading entrepreneur, laptops from Sainsbury’s and a deluge of donations from readers. The charity’s campaign to get laptops to lockdown pupils has now raised an astonishing £2.6million in just five days. Sir Tom Hunter, who made his fortune in sporting goods, handed over his magnificent donation along with his favourite quotation: ‘A man who dies rich, dies disgraced.’ Sir Tom Hunter, who made his fortune in sporting goods,...

Cubico Sustainable Investments will be the the principal project investor for Australias 300MW Delburn Wind Farm. The investor has joined OSMI Australia as joint development partner and will purchase 100% of the project in the state of Victoria prior to the commencement of construction. Cubico’s head of Australia David Smith said: "We are excited to be investing in this innovative project in the Latrobe Valley – Victoria’s energy generation heartland – and are committed to delivering a ...

Press Release – NIWA Where theres mud, theres scientists. NIWA divers recently got down and dirty while completing a harbour-wide dive survey in the Wellington area. A NIWA dive team visited 20 sites in the Wellington and Porirua harbours during November working in … Where there’s mud, there’s scientists. NIWA divers recently got down and dirty while completing a harbour-wide dive survey in the Wellington area. A NIWA dive team visited 20 sites in the Wellington and Porirua harbours du...