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Another flood – can someone who has checked through the document, advise what the transport plan says about reserves for rebuilding bridges to ensure that outlying settlements are kept connected to the homeland?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2002/S00083/east-gore-residents-must-evacuate-now.htm
Mataura is about the River. It has had much value to the area though over the years it has lost ownership of the resulting industries. It has had a history of importance as a paper processing industry for photocopy paper – now closed of course – in line with the Treasury and right wing plan to enfeeble NZ. Also the foreign buy-out of NZ owned assets is noticeable. It is an indicator for much of what has happened to NZ small towns and regions.
The town straddles the Mataura River which flows south through the town and is a source of brown trout. On the northern outskirts of the town the river falls over a bed of sandstone 6.1 metres (20 ft) high to create the Mataura Falls which is known by local Maori as Te Aunui (the great current).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataura#Electricity_supply
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataura#Industry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataura#European_settlement and bridge work
The flour mill –
As a result of concerns expressed by local citizens about the proposed new paper mill’s proposal to secure sole rights to harnessing all the electrical potential of the falls, the paper mill’s proprietors obtained the goodwill of the citizens by building a flour mill on the west bank. The 3 grinding stones in the mill were driven by a water wheel. The flour mill was demolished in 1893 to make room for the freezing works.
The freezing works –
…In 1947 to 1948 season the slaughterhouse changed over from solo butchering to the chain system of slaughtering livestock. Whereas previously one man took responsibility for butchering an animal from start to finish, with the chain system one man was limited to undertaking one task. Compared with the previous system where the workers were permanent residents of the town the chain system lead to increasing numbers of seasonal workers who lived in the town only during the killing season. In 1982 a methane plant was installed which allowed the complex to supply more of its power demand.
After a series of takeovers the Mataura works came under the ownership of Alliance Group Limited in 1989. The works currently undertakes the processing of lamb, sheep, cattle and bobby calves and due to intensive development and expansion throughout its history extends for some distance along the bank of the river, sandwiched between it and State Highway 1.
The paper mill –
…By 1990 the mill, owned by NZ Forest Products, had become a division of Elder Resources, until it was taken over by Carter Holt Harvey in 1991. Between 1984 and 1991, due to upgrades and efficiency gains, productively had increased by 25% with 216 staff employed at the end of the period. By 1997 the mill was producing approximately 25,000 tonnes of paper products per year. The mill’s equipment was powered by a combination of onsite hydro power, steam boilers powered by local coal and supply from the local grid.
By the late 20th century the mill was coming under intense pressure from Asian competitors which had depressed the world price for paper, and as a result the mill was losing NZ$1 million a year. Faced with these losses and forecasts that they would continue, and with the mill contributing only 3% of Carter Harvey Holt output by volume, the company closed the mill on 18 August 2000 with 155 staff being made redundant.
Fibreboard – Still seems to be operating.
Fibreboard manufacturing
In 1997 Rayonier NZ limited opened on a greenfield site a medium-density fibreboard (MDF) manufacturing plant at Brydone, 8 kilometres south of Mataura. The facility was subsequently purchased by Dongwha in 2005. Renamed as the Patinna mill it specializes in thin and high density fibreboard products with 90% of its output exported.
It seems big developers sail through the consent processes and get SHA concessions while small operators are run through the mill for years!
It should be the opposite, large developments managed very carefully for infrastructure and environmental risks, while allowing smaller sensitive subdivisions through that have less impact and should be quicker to add housing sustainably!
Businessman seeks $1m damages from QLDC
Little B&B business owner run through the mill by council over a couple of sections
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/businessman-seeks-1m-damages-qldc
Meanwhile it sounds like SHA developer Universal Developments gets the go ahead for 400 sections in same zone…. and a lot of concessions for SHA in other areas…
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/residents-reject-sha-plan
It’s like a calling for perverts and violence voyuers from around the world to come to NZ.
We already have enough of our own problems and perverts and escalating violence that our justice and social services and victims support services under pressure is generating.
The last thing the country needs is more offenders flocking to NZ!
What is attracting them here? (ease of access?) Bums on seats for low level NZ qualifications?
Student filmed host in shower and stole underwear
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/student-filmed-host-shower-and-stole-underwear
Is it Casual Wednesday? The British High Commissioner has an interview about important effects of Brexit on NZ and trade and relations and she looks as if she is popping off for a meal or a drink at the pub. There is an informality about the way that women in executive positions dress that is at odds with the mana that feminists wanted to see given to females and especially those in positions of power. There used to be ‘power dressing’, then fashions changed and the upper breasts would be displayed, as if in a return to Regency days. The difference between men’s full-body clothing, and women’s display of skin, is an interesting human anthropology study which someone has probably already carried out.
Relevant link about Brexit comments from the British High Commissioner:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018732665/brexit-and-you
We have seen the rise of Gay Pride and an abused and mistreated and disregarded minority given the fair acceptance and place in society that they deserve.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/first-up/audio/2018732781/mr-gay-finalist-urges-stronger-pasifika-rainbow-profile
Now let’s call on all parents to form into a group dedicated to being similarly appreciated instead of being taken for granted, and lauded when it suits the mass of society, who go all sentimental and dewy eyed and think they love children (but their mothers are not always satisfactory) but then despise and condemn them when they get all needy and break the rules that have been made up for them. It’s a contradictory set of behaviours. Women would do well to start a group that sets out to foster good parenting, good backing and support from people who have a good sense of balance in life, and who will act to press for female parents and their partners if they have hem, to have a good ife, and be helped to find their parenting skills and be treasured as eminent people in society. The gays have pride, good on them, let the straights receive pride and have it also, and be enabled to fulfil their roles and have very full lives developing their and their child’s skills and talents, and creativity and learn praticality and self-sustainability without religion and dogma being pushed at them. Personal growth, social strength and integration, coupled with capable, loving parenthood has not become the norm in New Zealand, just talked about.
More crims coming into NZ, causing massive social crimes around the country and then NZ taxpayers have to look after them in prison and the justice system for decades!
“Four members of an international drugs syndicate that attempted to smuggle $20m worth of cocaine into New Zealand have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 27 to 14 years.
The men, a Serbian, a Croat and two Australians, were sentenced at the High Court in Rotorua on Tuesday for the audacious plot that involved submersible scooters, gym bags stuffed with cash and the use of container ships as unwitting drug mules.
It remains the biggest seizure of cocaine in New Zealand history and, it was revealed in court, was the syndicate’s third importation into the country.”
Cultural discounts on sentencing!
Apparently one applied for a ‘cultural’ discount on their jail sentence because French prisons are so much better and he can play sports there!
“A cultural report cited by Justice Powell revealed Habulin “took a dim view of the New Zealand prison system compared to the French prison system”.
Powell, however, dismissed Habulin’s concerns cited in the report, including that he would not be able to access education while in prison and run ultra-marathons, as he had in the French system.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119226504/big-jail-terms-for-countrys-largest-ever-cocaine-haul
Philomena Cunk and Barry Shitpeas ion about Climate Change and putting it all into perspective.
Part 1 – Please watch this and after a little while to digest it, and try not to throw up, I will put up the next
part of the series. Enjoy, in a funny way!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQwGWYAXwM
Can the government please buy the crayfish that can’t be found new sale outlets in time, apart from those that are returned to sea. And arrange for it to be made available to fish and chip shops for immediate use at a reasonable price? Iwi and hapu to have first dibs. They used to take it to school for lunches because there wasn’t anything better, they were so used to it as it was so plentiful. So iwi that can use it now should have a certain amount and other reliable ‘cooksters’ get the rest. Please. Bellamys can get a share and pay full price as we know fat cats like fish.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/408906/crayfish-to-be-returned-to-ocean-after-china-cancels-orders
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