Posts by merc
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Meh, tax and spend, how hard is it?
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Luke Williamson,
I surfed it breaking off the back of the groyne, perfect A frames breaking left and right, 1979, 3 of us out. Some days you just remember. The days 1973-76 were Whangamata and Raglan and Piha days for me, interesting what's happened there...wherever there are great breaks on the East coast, there will be development (Te Arai), then the West coast. Follow the Sun.
Omaha was very special, there are still some breaks like that left though. -
Oh dear, I meant to write groyne, naturally...
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Omaha was used a practice run for the D Day Normandy landings, similar contour to Normandy. Before the groin a really good break too.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Andre,
Would that train go through Kumeu?
I love the things you describe here BTW. -
Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to nzlemming,
I could say but I wont ;-) The tide went out on us when they hired their first CEO.
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No longer prescient, headline change http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6562626/Auckland-Council-to-vote-on-port
Sadly I think too much institutionalized power via corporatism means that this struggle is one-sided. The hiring has been done, the contracts offered. -
There's no me in solidarity ;-)
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It seems to me if you were preparing POAL for sale, you'd get all employees on contract first. Who owns the land the ports operate from?
Oh my, is Auckland Council going to be asset stripped? (go Rodders). I write this because this is not the first attempt, I must research Infrastructure Auckland.
Oh my, a quick google and it's an interesting lineage. -
An insight into Council's relationship with central Govt.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/6563273/Councils-hit-back-at-central-govt