LIFESTYLER
September 20 2016
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Ending a national tour Changing the guard Matakohe House with its accommodation and restaurant is under new ownership …
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Trophy for Aranga
Aranga School pupil, Hunter HolsterKomene, has won this year’s Northern Wairoa Primary School Speech Competition …
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Lana Searle and Jason Gunn were broadcasting live in the AD Focus car park in Dargaville last Friday, for the last showing of the Naked Gunn More FM billboard tour which started in Bluff and ended in Dargaville. There were games for the children and the tour ended with Jason setting his ‘naked billboard’ on fire with the fire brigade extinguishing the remnants. “Those who showed up really enjoyed the event and so did Jason and Lana. It was a good way for them to finish their tour and it was nice to see Lana at work in her home town,” said AD Focus owner Deborah van Leeuwerden.
Interim decision released on rates by Paul Campbell
A challenge to the legality of rates set by the Kaipara District Council and the Northland Regional Council has resulted in an interim High Court judgement finding that while NRC rates ‘were not set lawfully’ the government’s retrospective Validation Act ‘validated the unlawful rates of the KDC’.
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Justice Duffy has made an interim judgement on the judicial review brought by the Mangawhai Residents and Ratepayers Association and Bruce and Heather Rogan. She has decided that NRC rates were not set lawfully for the 2011/2012, 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 rating
to NRC rates was unlawful. Therefore the penalties imposed on rates in respect of NRC rates was unlawful. ‘The Validation Act only validated the unlawful rates of the KDC. It did not validate the unlawful rates of the NRC’.
years and that the NRC’s delegation to the KDC of the assessment of rates and recovery of rates for the rating years between 2011/2012 and 2015/2016 inclusive was unlawful. ‘Accordingly those rates were not lawfully assessed’. She also found that the NRC’s delegation to the KDC to add penalties
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