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Vol 51, No 42
PLANNING YOUR RETIREMENT PAGES 11-18
‘I AM NOT GOING TO BE BULLIED’
By CHRIS HARROWELL
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s members of the new Howick Local Board prepare to meet for the first time later this month, questions remain about the unresolved issue of management of the Howick War Memorial Hall. The nine candidates elected to the board will meet at Uxbridge Arts and Culture in Howick at 6pm on October 31. They’ll be sworn in and choose their new chairperson and deputy chairperson before holding their inaugural business meeting. The board has debated the ongoing saga of management of the war memorial hall building in Picton Street since December last year when council staff first recommended it appoint the Howick Village Association as the facility’s manager. Each time that recommendation came before the board, it failed to receive a majority of votes and did not pass. The building’s management
remained a contentious issue right up to the previous board’s final business meeting last month, which ran for almost four hours. Several members of the public addressed the board on various subjects during the meeting’s public forum stage. As it was ending, another group of people asked to speak also. Board chairperson Adele White told them she had authority under standing orders to prohibit them from speaking. The group included Howick Ratepayers and Residents Association (HRRA) chairperson Janet Dickson and committee member Peter Bankers. White said the group wanted to discuss with the board the issue of the war memorial hall’s management, which they’d done “a number of times already”. “The matter of the war memorial hall building is not currently on the table and I’ve turned down two other groups that also wanted to speak. Continued on page 4
Contact us anytime Christopher Luxon, MP for Botany Botany@parliament.govt.nz 09 532 8390 Simeon Brown, MP for Pakuranga PakurangaMP@parliament.govt.nz 09 572 0000
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