17 September, 2013 | News, Waitemata Local Board
A non-elected Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) ATEED has set back the Symonds Street cemetery’s reputation by giving carte blanch to a private company to film there. While the community and the Waitemata Local Board work to upgrade the cemetery after years of...
16 September, 2013 | Events, News
The Isthmus Labour Hub is holding a special campaign rally this coming Saturday 21 September to hear Mayor Len Brown and others speak as Auckland heads to the polls. On this date Aucklanders will begin receiving their voting papers for local body elections and it is...
15 September, 2013 | News, Our Projects, Waitemata Local Board, Waitemata Local Board |
Total parts per million of carbon in our atmosphere is, at time of writing, around 397. This is reaching levels not seen for three million years. Not 300 hundred years, or 3,000 years, but three million years. Back then, the world was a different place; sea levels...
12 September, 2013 | Events, Local Government Elections, News
Candidates for Auckland’s Waitemata and Gulf Ward will answer questions from local voters on Wednesday, 18 September at a Meet the Candidates event to be held at the Jubilee Building, 545 Parnell Road, Parnell from 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Positions will be hotly contested. ...
12 September, 2013 | Featured Post, Mike Lee, News, Transport |
Cr Mike Lee was acknowledged today by the Mayor Len Brown as instrumental in bringing electric trains to Auckland at the unwrapping of the first train to arrive from Spain. The trains will be gradually introduced into passenger service on a line by line basis until...
11 September, 2013 | Featured Post, News
Today’s piece in the NZ Herald ‘Battlefield of the haves and have-nots’ confirms that the City Vision and Roskill Community Voice campaigns in this critical ward, are making all the running. Hard working incumbent Councillor Cathy Casey has been...
9 September, 2013 | Media Releases, News, Roskill Community Voice
Media Release Roskill Community Voice 9 September 2013 “We have been overwhelmed by the supportive response of the community to our Bury The Pylons campaign and petition,” says Garth Houltham, Roskill Community Voice candidate for the Puketapapa Local Board. “We...
9 September, 2013 | Events, News
2013 marks 120 years of women’s suffrage. In 1893, New Zealand became the first nation in the world to grant women the right to vote. Suffrage Day (September 19) is a significant day in New Zealand’s history and it is traditionally celebrated by individuals and...
9 September, 2013 | Auckland District Health Board, News
A leak last year from the Peru round of the TPPA negotiations indicated that the United States pharmaceutical industry regard neutralising PHARMAC as one of its principle priorities. They have claimed that by keeping costs of medicines low to consumers PHARMAC ...
