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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473413/health-worker-shortage-hits-far-north-hospital-s-after-hours-service
Health worker shortages have become so bad in the Far North there will soon be no doctor on site at Rāwene Hospital in the evenings or overnight.
What are the gummint doing about this – have they got Southern Cross or Blue Cross lined up to contract (privatise ) out to. People are getting upset and cross? Or maybe our dear Minister of Health will follow health strictures that say that people should be as active as possible, it’s good for the body politic!
Dr Smith would be disappointed. He was dedicated in his service in early 1900’s to the needy people in this part of the Far North NZ. Note he didn’t follow all the rules in his personal life, and our present puritan hegemony would probably not appreciate this tireless champion.
The isolated, poor Hokianga district was dependent on maritime transport, with few all-weather roads and no railway. Smith and his nurses travelled on foot and horseback, by coach and launch. The hospital’s water supply, sewerage system, operating theatre and other amenities were inadequate, and its board was reluctant to authorise new expenditure.
The large Maori population was suspicious of Pakeha medicine yet gravely in need of health services. The 1918 influenza epidemic put Smith on his mettle. To prevent the spread of infection he had shops closed, posted armed men at crossroads, and organised teams to feed the sick. These measures proved successful and recovery was rapid….
In 1921 Smith was dismissed by the Hokianga Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, which had tired of his hectoring them for improvements. Local opinion was aroused in his favour, however, and the dismissal was not implemented. Thereafter Smith became the dominant figure in the public life of the district. With the onset of the 1930s depression he became an ardent advocate of Douglas Social Credit…https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4s32/smith-george-marshall-mccall
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/weekly-review-no-332-hokianga-backblock-medical-service-1948
Let us not forget our glorious past and fade into an inglorious present with a future disappearing with a whimper and a puff of hot air.
https://corpus.nz/dr-smith-of-rawene/
I’ve an opinion I want to state here about the way that people’s doctorates are referred to when written especially in publications. I tend to connect the Acronym Dr with medical doctors. When I put Dr Smith above that was what I referred to. But in Nelson we have a Dr Nick Smith, and he is not a medical doctor.
This is his archived government biography. Doesn’t tell one much about the man does it. He has been in Wellington politicking in many way for a lot of time so is quite full and yet empty of his personal attributes. and background. https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/former-members-of-parliament/smith-nick
His qualifications would be DEng apparenrtly (Bachelor of Engineering degree with first-class honours in civil engineering, and a PhD with a thesis titled The Residual Strength of Soils and Landslide Stability). We lost a useful skilled man to the attraction of being a National MP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)#Education_and_early_ca
I think if the honorific Dr is going to be used then if not medical it should have the discipline it refers to in brackets ie Dr Nick Smith (DEng). It can be done and should be for real
clarification, and laziness should not prevent making a change for anyone with an honorific.
Auckland bridge for cyclists walkers
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/473493/38m-nga-hau-mangere-walking-and-cycleway-approaches-opening
The new $38m Ngā Hau Māngere walking and cycleway connecting Onehunga and Māngere will officially open on Saturday. Photo: LDR / Stephen Forbes
People full of opinions here could help the Reserve Bank towards some good decisions from citizens viewpoints.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2208/S00310/feedback-sought-on-policy-for-branches-of-overseas-banks.htm
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is inviting feedback on the second and final consultation on the review of its policy for branches of overseas banks.
Branches of overseas banks can be an important link between our economy and global financial markets. The objective of the review is to create a simple, coherent and transparent policy framework for branches that protects and promotes financial stability…
We welcome submissions on the policy questions set out in our Branch Policy consultation, and any alternative options or proposals, to be made before 16 November 2022. We will also be hosting a webinar on Wednesday 31 August 2022. Any interested parties are welcome to attend. To register your interest, please email
BranchPolicyReview@rbnz.govt.nz
The publication packages includes three documents:
The second and final consultation paper, with a proposed Banking Prudential Requirements document for changes and proposed amendments to BS1 both appended.
A summary of submissions in response to the first consultation paper.
Full submissions in response to the first consultation paper.
Toilet paper war still ongoing between Sweden and countrytown NZ. We’ll have unpleasant ammunition for them soon if they don’t up the wages and play fair.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2208/S00047/lockout-of-essity-workers-in-kawerau-in-third-week.htm
For more than a fortnight 145 factory workers in Kawerau, a New Zealand town with a population of about 7,000, have been locked out by Essity, a Swedish-based multinational company. The Kawerau plant makes well-known brands such as Purex and Sorbent toilet paper and Handee paper towels.
Essity management took the brutal step on August 9 after workers took limited strike action, having rejected a pay increase of just 3 percent over three years and a lump sum payment of $4,500. The offer was well below the increased cost of living, with New Zealand’s annual inflation rate at 7.3 percent.
Remember the figure of *32% return on the USA money manager’s investment properties.
The whole money system and magical expectations of investors just f…ks us ordinary people’s lives and heads around.
*The North Carolina-born investor who specialized in picking stocks co-founded Tiger Management in 1980 and grew the firm to oversee roughly US$22 billion by the late 1990s, boasting an average annual return of 32 percent.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/473381/billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-julian-robertson-dies-at-90
Incidentally he ended making losses and gave up saying he didn’t understand the market anymore. More important were Robertson’s own instincts on trading and when to bow out, people who worked with him have said. In 2000 Robertson acknowledged that his pattern of picking cheap stocks with good earnings prospects wasn’t working anymore.
After years of strong returns, Tiger Management suffered a double digit loss in 1999 and started 2000 with more losses.
He wrote to his investors that there was no point in “subjecting (them) to risk in a market which I frankly do not understand.”
Perhaps he ended up thinking similar to Don McLean’s ‘Vincent’:
‘Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will.’
Political decisions bad for the NZ people result in pressures on citizens in expedient moves
to cope with troubling and problematic results.
Labour’s Steve Chadwick typically follows the we-know-best approach. She put her casting vote to open up Rotorua reserves for sale for housing – just as she is leaving as Mayor. It would have been gracious to not go against the people’s wishes but that’s not the Labour middleclass way.
July2/22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/470184/rotorua-reserves-for-housing-council-urged-to-rethink-sale-of-community-assets
Aug.25/22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/473510/rotorua-reserves-proposal-mayor-steve-chadwick-uses-casting-vote-to-push-sale-plan-through
Before the Report gets sidelined and overlooked – I’d just like to pin it down here. About the abused in state care and the effect it has on them.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/08/25/incarceration-rates-and-state-care-directly-linked-according-to-new-research-abuse-in-care-royal-commission-of-inquiry/
One out of every three children and young people placed in residential care by the State went on to serve a prison sentence later in life, according to a new Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry research report.
The research shows Māori children and young people were even more likely to end up in prison, with 42 per cent serving a custodial sentence as an adult.
This shows a significant disparity between those in residential care and the general population for whom less than one in ten ended up in prison.
Tabled this afternoon during the examination of Oranga Tamariki at the Inquiry’s State Institutional Response public hearing, Care to Custody: Incarceration Rates Research Report is the first of its kind to analyse the interagency records of more than 30,000 children and young people between 1950 and 1999.
The research provides evidence of what the Royal Commission has heard time and time again through its work with survivors – a direct link between State care and criminal custody.
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What do you need TDB?
How much of NZ OnAir do you actually need?
How much comrade?
What “works” for us?
Listening to Winstone on RNZ this morning he sounded like a bitter old man, sour grapes comes to mind.
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