hawkesbaycouncilwatch

Quote from comment on another blog  ‘ taxation is a personal thing, it’s my money’  end quote.

I like it

The Hastings District Council after many attempts have decided they are the heart of Hawkes Bay.

Do they have a heart? The way they have treated ratepayers this year you would not think so. They have saddled future ratepayers with huge debt that our kids will be burdened with.

They are too scared to admit we derive so much economic benefit from our primary producers and that fruit is still a huge part of Hastings.

The Fruitbowl of New Zealand remains the best name for Hastings and that is that.

We have yet another National Minister making a PC decision.Not wishing to front up to the hard decisions Maurice veteran Williamson, finds the easy way out over the Wanganui decision and plugs for either or.

Not prepared to stand up for the facts of the issue, Maori was not a written language at the time and it was written as spoken. Wanganui.

I suppose that was better than wankanui and it has after all stood the test of time.

We like it as it is.

The decision to fly the Maori flag on the Harbour Bridge on Waitangi day , helps cement in the division that the current political climate has created.

National claims they are establishing good relations with the Maori Party but in fact, what they are doing is slowly building a major wall in the country that is separating genuine kiwis with race based policies that are spreading despair and grief among the majority.

National has increased fines for people breaching our biosecurity regulations. This is ‘getting serious’ about securing our borders.

Rotorua has just become international with the opening of an air service to Sydney twice a week. The Government is not being tough enough on biosecurity in Rotorua as some primary producers have offered to supply a beagle for work at the airport.

Producers have been asked to fund biosecurity.This is appalling.It is not the producers who are responsible for breaches but the idiots that try anything to get a meal or a paw paw into this country.

Sometimes it is hard to figure out this government.

One has to question why the sports park trust has attacked ‘bloggers’ over queries relating to the funding or non funding of the proposed facilities.

If the trust wishes to take this line then they should remove the Mayor as a trust member other wise they may be blamed for speaking indirectly for him.

The CEO Mr McIntosh should realise that the trust is a council owned organisation and as such should be fully accountable to the council and the ratepayers. The trust needs to be scrutinised and should adhere to the funding agreement.

They have not done this.

The feds are tearing their hair out.

The head of federated farmers must be wondering what on earth has happened on the political scene with National snubbing the primary sector left right and centre. To make matters worse the Nats are in bed with the Maori Party in  a way that could never have been contemplated pre election.

Left wing commentator Colin James is cheering the Nats on and putting the boot into the Feds by suggesting in his Press column that it is right for the Nats to ignore the farming sector and that we are all doomed if we don’t follow an ETS that will cripple the country.

It is Do Nicholson that is right.The Nats have lost their way after one year unless they are playing some new game that we haven’t yet figured out.

Hastings District Council seems intent on having a logo to promote their own pocket in Hawkes Bay.A logo to separate them from the state of Napier.

But.This ongoing fascination with a brand is costing ratepayers a fortune.

What irks many ratepayers is the apparent strong desire by the council to ignore the well established brand that was tried and proven and is relivant  today  “the fruitbowl of New Zealand”.

It is a name that has stuck and Hastings should make the most of it.

At the september meeting of the Hastings District Council the Sports Park Trust was asked to come back in October with justification for wanting to bring forward expenditure on the next stage..

Forward to the October meeting and what happened ??

Nothing. No explanation. Extraordinary!!!

It explains why the Mayor should not be chair of the trust as well as Mayor.

There are certainly more people questioning the decision to make Auckland a Super City.

This great desire to kill local democracy will not be stopped and when one listens to some of those involved in making it happen alarm bells ring.

On Laidlaws show a story included comments from a Mr Askwith, a pommie import from what appears to be the local government sector in the UK.

Comments he made such as Invercargill farmers don’t realise that Auckland  is so important to them and that the Mayor of this super city should be able to veto anything, are really quite scary. He also stated that they will replace seven muppets (mayors) for one, was a condescending and insulting comment.

Go back to the UK Mr Askwith. We don’t need you here.