Meet the candidates – Parnell
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. ...
First electric train for Auckland revealed
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...
Making the running in Albert-Eden-Roskill
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 campaigning hard on...
Bury the pylons petition cracks 1000!
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...
Suffrage Day celebrations
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...
TPPA – PHARMAC and the role of the Auckland DHB
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 ...
Walking and Cycling on the Harbour Bridge – let’s do it
The 1954 decision by the government of the day to build an Auckland Harbour bridge with only four lanes was one of Auckland’s original ‘sins of the fathers’. Well transport sins anyway. The others were the cancellation of rail electrification the same year and – the...
City Vision candidates support the Tick for Kids agenda
Media release from Every Child Counts 3 September 2013 Growing list of candidates support the Tick for Kids agenda A growing list of candidates in the local government and District Health Board elections are signing up to the ‘Tick for Kids’ campaign, confirming their...
Northey rallies Auckland Council support for power line undergrounding
Media Release from Richard Northey Candidate for Auckland Council Maungakiekie – Tamaki Ward 05 September 2013 During the Auckland Council Unitary Plan deliberations last week Maungakiekie-Tamaki Auckland Councillor Richard Northey achieved unanimous Auckland...
Albert-Eden—The Place for Kids to be this Summer
This week work commences on Albert-Eden Local Board’s flagship project, the splash-pad at Potters Park. Project lead and board chair Peter Haynes says he can’t wait to bring his own two year-old son down to play amidst the fountains, showers and sprays, and to hear...