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Waikato Regional Council worked with 341 landowners in 2022/23 to retire 1726 hectares of land, plant 950,000 native trees and protect 137 kilometres of waterways. A report on the council’s river and catchment planning and management activities for the ...
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Massive private and council efforts have gone into protecting Waikato waterways.
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Consultant with ties to Tongan royal family wanted for arrest in SFO's iwi trust probe 22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Wanted consultant Soane Ramanlal was a business associate of the late Tongan King George Tupou V, pictured in Wellington during 2011. Photo / Mark Mitchell A consultant with links to the Tongan royal family has a warrant out for his arrest after being charged in a Serious Fraud Office investigation but is believed to no longer be in New Zealand. Soane Ramanlal was charged by the SFO alongside prominent business and Te Arawa leader Roger Pikia last November after an in...
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SFO investigation: Prominent Te Arawa leader appears in court over alleged $364k fraud 16 Dec, 2020 02:33 AM 3 minutes to read Roger Pikia speaking to reporters outside court. Photo / Alex Burton A prominent business leader has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office and accused of obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars through deception from an iwi trust he once chaired. After an investigation spanning years, Roger Haare Charles Pikia, 52, appeared today in the Auckland District Court before Judge Pippa Sinclair. It is alleged between February 2014 and December 2015 he obtained property...