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A main highway into Palmerston North will no longer be lined by unpopular brightly coloured planter boxes after city councillors on Wednesday voted for their removal.
Cafe Esplanade may be joined by other food sellers in Palmerston North's top park.
Palmerston North politicians happy to support campaign for free buses for young and low-income people, despite mayor's political party ponderings.
Palmerston North City Council budgets to build on its social housing provision.
Smith said he believed the council had to start somewhere to reduce the growing levels of booze-induced violence he was reading about in reports from Safe City Hosts. He wanted the policy to be a local response to local issues, rather than allowing national players to dictate the ground rules for the sale and supply of alcohol. Rachel Bowen was left as the only councillor who did not support adoption of the policy, a decision she said she had found difficult. “On one hand, I strongly disagree with this one element. “On the other, I wish we could have gone further.