Month: August 2011
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Tau Henare wants Auckland Council to break the law
By Greg Presland This week the combined Westie boards heard submissions from local residents and groups that wanted to make a submission to all of the boards. Amongst them was National List MP Tau Henare. Essentially he wanted rates reduced for local businesses. He has an argument. Waitakere Council had the highest business rates of…
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Waitakere Film Studios ride again!
I am pleased to see that Waitakere Film Studios is now again under full Council ownership. I was one of the Waitakere City Councillors who in 2002 decided to buy the original studio. It had been the site of a nascent film industry in West Auckland. The owner went broke and the possibility was that…