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University of Otago researchers have been awarded more than $32 million in the latest Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) Endeavour Fund.

From the July 14, 1938 News Record:

A seven-week trial over alleged concealed political donations that took three years to reach the High Court in Auckland is drawing to a close today.

The High Court in Auckland has heard how several defendants in a trial over alleged concealed political donations claimed not to be aware of electoral disclosure rules.

Save Queen Street, which includes commercial landlords and retailers, argued that ongoing trials of new arrangement could run for years, damaging commerce in an already struggling strip. “The current arrangement of the street has caused economic harm – business are up against it,” their lawyer Sam Lowery told Wednesday’s injunction hearing. The council’s lawyer Padraig McNamara said given Save Queen Street wanted to stop the improvements to the 2020 temporary arrangement of plastic...

Work to make the CBD's main shopping street more pedestrian-friendly and limit traffic will begin on Monday, but opponents will continue their fight.

Bid for injunction to stop councils lower Queen Street upgrade fails Sarah Robson © RNZ / Liu Chen A group of Queen Street landlords and businesses has lost its bid to stop further temporary work to make Aucklands main commercial street more pedestrian-friendly. Businesses want the council to settle on plans to improve Queen Street and "do it once and do it right". The Save Queen Street Society (SQSS) is seeking a judicial review of the Auckland Councils decision-making aroun...

Lobby group and Auckland Council face off in court as judge mulls whether to stop $1.1 million pilot to make main drag more accessible to pedestrians.

Queen St businesses seek judicial review of Auckland Council pedestrian upgrades © RNZ / Amy Williams A group of Queen Street landlords and businesses has been taking legal action to stop further work to make Aucklands main commercial street more pedestrian-friendly. The Save Queen Street Society (SQSS) is seeking a judicial review of the Auckland Councils decision-making around a pilot programme to test pedestrian upgrades. As part of that, it wants an interim injunction to stop some of the ...