Let’s play in the Bay’s biggest playground

Posted on 24th May 2013 10:35 | By Anonymous Author

Brian AndersonThe Western Frontwww.sunlive.co.nz Regional council describes Tauranga Harbour as the Bay of Plenty’s biggest playground. Hundreds of people use the harbour for organised water sport and recreation.  For councils, water sports are easy to control because sports clubs can negotiate clubrooms and access to the harbour....

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The Lloyd Morgan Lions Clubs Charitable Trust

Posted on 24th May 2013 10:07 | By Anonymous Author

Lion AdamPapamoa Lions News Since last month’s Lion Around with the Papamoa Lions Club – we’ve been to one of our club’s more important events: The Lloyd Morgan Lions Clubs Charitable Trust Dinner and Awards presentation, held at Bureta Park Hotel. The Lloyd Morgan Lions Clubs Charitable Trust was established in 1979-1980...

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Sympathies with school administrators and the teaching profession

Posted on 24th May 2013 09:55 | By Anonymous Author

Independent viewsBy Brendan Horan My sympathies rest firmly with the school administrators and the teaching profession, which for so long now has had their attention distracted from their primary roles as educators. How many other professions would stand for what this Government has subjected them to, in respect to payment for a job well done? By...

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Profitable assets subsidise taxes

Posted on 24th May 2013 09:53 | By Anonymous Author

Ian McLeanSpokesperson for the Green Party It makes business sense to sell assets if the profits from that sale are used to generate new income. But why not simply retain the original profitable enterprise? Between 1987 and 1999, partial or complete sales of more than 25 businesses netted more than $19 billion for central Government. Those sales,...

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Listening to our youth

Posted on 24th May 2013 09:52 | By Anonymous Author

Jane NeesBOP Regional Councillorwww.janenees.co.nz Early morning isn’t generally the best time of the day for teenagers.  However, I was very impressed at a recent SmartGrowth breakfast where student leaders, from 10 Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty high schools, were invited to give their perspective on growth issues and solutions. ...

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Community work

Posted on 24th May 2013 09:51 | By Anonymous Author

John CroninBOP Regional Council Chairmanwww.boprc.govt.nz In all the work we do, we work with our community including tangata whenua, landowners, other councils and agencies. A good example of this is the work we’re doing in the Kaituna River and Ongatoro/Maketū estuary, to restore wetlands and kaimoana in the area.  Last weekend,...

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Napier has a vision – Tauranga City doesn’t…

Posted on 24th May 2013 09:50 | By Anonymous Author

Andrew von DadelszenFormer Regional Councillor I recently spent the weekend at a Rotary Conference in Napier, and I was so impressed with that city. In contrast to downtown Tauranga, Napier is clean and vibrant, with a real atmosphere of charming elegance. The Napier waterfront is also vibrant and well-planned. It just made me think what a ‘head...

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Third warmest April on record

Posted on 20th May 2013 15:46 | By Anonymous Author

Weather Eyewith John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites over the last 100 years including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. It is very common for areas such as Tauranga to have had different observation sites over the years and the readings from the earlier sites have been adjusted to...

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Green Party supports local candidates

Posted on 17th May 2013 12:28 | By Anonymous Author

Ian McLeanSpokesperson for the Green Party The Green Party has announced that it will support two local Tauranga candidates in the local body elections in 2013 – Dr Ian McLean and Delwyn Walker. Ian will stand for Bay of Plenty Regional Council in the Tauranga ward. Delwyn will stand for Tauranga City Council in the Te Papa / Welcome Bay...

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Liquefaction in the Bay

Posted on 17th May 2013 11:57 | By Anonymous Author

Brian AndersonThe Western Frontwww.sunlive.co.nz Recent reports of liquefaction problems in the Bay have worried some of the readers. Many mistakenly believe that liquefaction is a consequence of an earthquake but liquefaction will occur when any seemingly solid, sandy soil reaches a certain level of water saturation. The soil turns to slurry...

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