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Wellington City Councillors today accepted a staff recommendation and voted to demolish the Municipal Office Building next to the Town Hall. The building was to have been leased by Victoria University as part of the new National Music Centre, but strengthening costs have risen to $84m, which councillors were told made the plan uneconomic.
A report to today’s meeting said that the potential cost of demolition and rebuilding would be “no more than option to strengthen and refurbish.” And, without explanation, it mentioned the possibility of private investment.
Staff told councillors that demolition and rebuilding would be “potentially self-funding based on tenants paying market rentals.” And there would be an “ability to involve private investment” and to “increase Gross Floor Area” with a “modern design that better meets the needs of the National Music School and unlocks highest and best use potential of the site” and is
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The Pacific Cooperation Foundation (PCF) announced the winners for its Inaugural Pacific Cooperation Foundation Youth Leadership Awards at Parliament on Wednesday.
The awards ceremony was hosted by the Hon Aupito William Sio, Minister for Pacific Peoples and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs.
PCF lead/management consultant Afamasaga Jackie Curry said, “The aim of the PCF Youth Leadership Awards is to encourage and reward service leadership to benefit our communities not just in Aotearoa New Zealand, but also the Pacific region.
“Pacific people are a growing, youthful and diverse population both in New Zealand and in the Pacific region, so these awards acknowledge and encourage the contribution and achievements of our young Pacific emerging leaders as well as their families who support them,” Afamasaga said.
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New Zealand fashion designer Dame Trelise Cooper has apologised for an “embarrassing mistake” after naming a $299 dress the “Trail of Tiers”. The name bears a close similarity to the forced relocation of Native Americans during the 1830s Trail of Tears. Dame Trelise Cooper. Source: 1 NEWS
The Trail of Tears saw an estimated 45,000 Native Americans forced from their ancestral homelands by the US Government at the time. Thousands died along the 8000km relocation, with many falling ill and starving.
In a statement to 1 NEWS, the Trelise Cooper group said they were “completely unaware” of the meaning of the term.
In January 2012, aged 21, Kearse was convicted of having 12 grams of cannabis and fined $200. He co-operated with police and accepted responsibility immediately, Justice Rebecca Ellis said in the High Court. She proceeded on the assumption the sentencing judge had not considered the possibility of a discharge without conviction, so she was prepared to consider the case afresh. The consequences of a conviction were out of all proportion to the gravity of the offence, and she discharged him without conviction. It might not help because she suspected the US authorities also looked at charges, not just convictions, but it was reasonable to assume his prospects would improve, the judge said.