Jonathan Guildford and Matthew Littlewood16:52, May 26 2021
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A foggy and frosty Wednesday morning in Tekapo.
It has been a bitterly cold morning for many across the South Island as temperatures in several southern centres plummeted into the negatives, well below their overnight averages for autumn. According to MetService as of 7am on Wednesday, Tekapo had the lowest temperature at -8.2 degrees Celsius, Mosgiel was at -7C, Christchurch was -3C, Timaru -6C, Dunedin Airport -7.1C, Alexandra -6.8C, Invercargill -3C, Queenstown -4C and Westport was just over 3C. However, Mackenzie Country Weather NZ forecaster Jordan Langley said temperatures overnight in the Mackenzie District included -8C for Tekapo, -10C for Fairlie, and -7C for Twizel.
A Christchurch City Council spokesperson said a submission was being drafted for the Gambling Commission s review.
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Dunedin mayor Aaron Hawkins has written a draft submission concerning the charitable trusts of casinos. A draft letter from Dunedin mayor Aaron Hawkins, which forms part of a submission to be discussed by his council on Tuesday, supported a “more consistent approach to the level of community funding provided by casinos”. Hawkins also asked for the trusts to become fully independent of casinos, “rather than allow licence holders to exercise control over significant aspects of the trust”. He noted Dunedin Casino paid at least $52,000 a year to an “independent” charitable trust, which provided funding for problem gambling treatment and 1 per cent of gaming machine turnover (to a maximum of $110,000) to community and sport groups.
Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 4:25 pm
The Office of the Auditor-General Tumuaki o Mana Arotake
(OAG) has confirmed it will not be formally investigating
procurement practice at Queenstown Lakes District Council
(QLDC).
Chief Executive Mike Theelen said that he
welcomed the correspondence from the OAG and that staff were
reassured by the OAG’s findings that a review of
procurement practice was on the right
pathway.
“Through Council’s own review of
procurement practice undertaken earlier this year, we have
acknowledged that there was a general lack of alignment
between Procurement Policy and Guidelines and actual
practice. Furthermore, that the Policy and Guidelines first
We wrote to Queenstown Lakes District Council after concerns were raised with us about its procurement of services from a consultancy firm. Mike Theelen Chief Executive Queenstown Lakes District Council 10 Gorge Road Queenstown 3900 Tēnā .