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Paua poachers banned from fishing Supplied photo/file. Two repeat paua poachers have been banned from fishing, both for three years. A Lower Hutt man and a Napier man were sentenced last week, in unrelated cases, for repeatedly taking excess and undersize paua. Ionatana Sasi, 51, was caught by fishery officers in 2019 with 144 undersize paua at Burdans Gate near Eastbourne in Wellington. It was the second time in four years that he had been before the courts for stealing paua in the area, the ...

National MP Happy New Year. I hope that you had a chance to relax over the Christmas and New Year period, and that 2021 is off to a great start for you already. Aren’t we fortunate to live in the Bay of Plenty where we enjoy some of the most consistently sunny weather in New Zealand? I’m hearing lots of positive feedback from people who’ve travelled here from other places and have enjoyed our beaches, amenities, shops and restaurants. I feel refreshed after spending a few weeks of qual...

Posted on 23-01-2021 15:22 | By morepork "Staging in a construction programme is critical, and if one activity shifts, this impacts on all subsequent works". And any Project Manager has tools that are designed to deal with exactly that. You make a proper Gantt or PERT chart and define the critical path, then you can see immediately when it is going to run off the rails and you can revise the plan or mitigate the effects with more resources. It is called "Management" and there is a reason for t...

Labour MP I hope you and your family have all had a restful break after a very challenging year. I hope too that all our local businesses and retailers have benefitted from the holidaymakers who come to our beautiful region over the summer. As people are out enjoying the beach, walking through nature and visiting the shops, I spare a thought for those overseas who due to Covid-19 are not enjoying the same freedoms as we are in Aotearoa. Their challenges are a timely reminder to us that we ca...

Heat returns in the east next week File Image. MetService is forecasting a run of changeable weather to come. Summer is expected to make a brief return, before a cold front sweeps through and then pivots back to hot weather next week. After a couple of days of unseasonably cool temperatures across the country, things make a recovery on Friday. MetService meteorologist Mmathapelo Makgabutlane says temperatures warm back to average for January as a ridge of high pressure briefly moves in from the...

Hazardous driving conditions today due to weather File photo   The MetService have issued a Severe Weather Watch and Severe Thunderstorm Watch this morning with heavy rain expected for eastern Bay of Plenty, Buller and northern Westland.     “A slow moving trough continues to bring heavy rain and slow moving thunderstorms to Bay of Plenty east of Kawerau this morning,” says a MetService spokesperson.   “Localised downpours with rainfall rates of 25 to 40 mm per hour are expected, or p...

Attacks on kiwi prompts DOC warning to dog owners Kiwi. Photo: Bay Conservation.   Kiwi recently killed on the Coromandel Peninsula by dogs has prompted the Department of Conservation – DOC - to urge owners to take extreme care when in the birds habitat.   Three dead endangered Coromandel brown kiwi have been discovered at Tairua, Whenuakite and Matarangi in the last few months.   DOC biodiversity ranger Mailee Stanbury said at one stage five dogs were seen roaming the Whenuakite block.  ...

Holiday home prices skyrocket in Waihi Beach File photo.   House prices in some of New Zealands holiday hotspots have jumped more than 50 per cent in a year, according to the Real Estate Institute. The strongest median increase came in the Banks Peninsula township of Akaroa where prices were up 58 per cent year-on-year to $830,000 for the three months to November, compared to $525,000 in the same period last year. The Western Bay of Plenty township of Waihi Beach was second with an increase of...

Posted on 20-12-2020 22:42 | By Roman Tomson In more than 40 years of working at many levels within industry I recall many occasions that staff were financially rewarded for increasing productivity. However, throughout my working life I have NEVER seen an increase in productivity that can be directly attributed to a wage rise. The only beneficiary of this wage rise will be the Government through a higher income tax take and increased income from GST - you know, a new tax which isn’t really a...