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A Rotorua district councillor has expressed concern about children growing up in motels next door to gang members and Australia's 501 deportees. Some people in motels are in survival mode, Rotorua Lakes councillor Merepeka Raukawa-Tait says. Photo: LDR / Rotorua Daily Post Rotorua Lakes councillor Merepeka Raukawa-Tait made the comments at a council Strategy, Policy and Finance Committee meeting on Thursday as part of discussions surrounding a draft council plan to address community safety. So-called 501 deportees are criminal New Zealand citizens deported from Australia. They are named for ...

Rotorua was ranked second-worst for shoplifting, fourth worst for assault and fifth worst for vehicle theft. “We do have to look at the statistics in Rotorua of the high crime victimisation rate,” said council operations group manager Jocelyn Mikaere.​ “We want to be the safest place to live and raise a family, we don’t think that’s impossible.” She said council has increased City Guardian patrols, introduced temporary alcohol bans in certain hotspots and extended CCTV coverage. The plan also proposes further extending CCTV coverage to Fenton St – the location for many of...

Business closures spiked 130 percent in 2020 - new data Newshub 4/03/2021 © Video - Newshub; Image - Getty Watch: COVID-19's impact on businesses has been laid bare. COVID-19's impact has been laid bare, with new data showing business closures spiked by nearly 130 percent towards the end of 2020.   Between September and November 2020, more than 16,234 businesses closed for good. That's compared to 7,154 in the same period in 2019. A pause in the wage subsidy and a lack of international tourists are to blame - and there's a warning - it could get worse. Wellington street-food restaurant...

Some signs business resilience is teetering

That’s good news, given the many dire predictions last year as the country wrestled with its response to Covid and the prospect of lockdowns and economic collapse. Berl research for the Greater Wellington Regional Council forecast retail spending to drop by 16.3 per cent in 2021, regional GDP to fall 8.3 per cent and unemployment to move towards 6 per cent and beyond. But the latest statistics from StatsNZ and Dot Loves Data present a much more optimistic picture. Eftpos NZ figures for the three months to the end of January show spending in the city is down by just 2 per cent compared wi...