Posts by andrew llewellyn

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  • Hard News: New Rules,

    (But probably also because HNZ have a mandate to house people in need - if the Salt's can prove they're 'in need' how do you terminate?)

    I think you might be right there. I do know that they serve quite a few eviction notices, but follow through on very few ultimately.

    Why they didn't use the 90 day notice of termination is baffling though, I know they use that routinely in other cases.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Random Play: A missive from an ancient mariner,

    "there" - how does that happen anyway?

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  • Random Play: A missive from an ancient mariner,

    That's a nice point - the public works deadline - I think I'd rather see taxpayers money going their, than keeping the team in gortex & hookers for the next 4 years.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Speaker: Transformers: Less than meets…,

    Heh. Thereyago, I assumed the pink one was gay.

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  • Hard News: New Rules,

    So why didn't HNZ issue a completely legal 90 day notice of termination?

    Are you sure they didn't?

    Could it be that it doesn't 'fit' with the ethos of State Housing ie tenants can stay as long as they like for as long as they want to?

    Probably not, they issue 90 day notices all the time, sometimes they rescind them if whatever the issue that prompted the action gets fixed. I don't know why they tried eviction this time, but I'd be very, very surprised if 90 day notice hadn't been served at some stage.

    It is hard to evict a state tenant (I don't know why, but it is easier (slightly) for private landlords.) I think that you could count the number of actual, state tenant evictions, over say the last 10 years, on one hand.

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  • Hard News: Taking the rise,

    Surely, we didn't "lose" it, we failed to win it.

    Interesting what you say there Nic, a friend of mine was in San Diego during an earlier America's cup regatta, she said apart from a few hundred kiwis on the waterfront, the city appeared completely oblivious to the colossal struggle taking place.

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  • Island Life: This just in: incumbent…,

    Simon Sez...

    That said, it is US law and the Bush's complete disregard for that and the processes in the pursuit of that (and international) law on almost every level is a horrifying trademark of his regime to date. This is merely indicative of an ongoing pattern.

    And (bwaha), Alastair sez...

    Another bush impression Simon....

    Bravo.

    heh heh... timing is all?

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  • Island Life: This just in: incumbent…,

    And how many has he had executed? Those things used to happen in a monarchy...

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Island Life: This just in: incumbent…,

    heh - did you finish this after updating Libby's bio on wikipedia?

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  • Radiation: Sensational,

    The liberation of Paris? er, that was first used by someone about 10 minutes after incarceration.

    Pah. I knew it was too late. Must pay more attention to the big (lead) news stories, obviously.

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