Mayor Martin Connelly is asking the South Wairarapa community to speak up on the issues of spending and efficiency. He’s written in…
The country’s first Heritage quake-proof building – South Wairarapa’s council office – is plagued by leaks, airborne and underfoot toxic mould, asbestos…
Eighteen months of repairs and a block on new sewerage connections – and only seven years to go to fix the mess.…
As you will know the Council recently changed some of its rating formulas so that a section with two or more houses…
Local bodies nationwide face a funding crisis, most agree, but the Coalition Government is apparently in no mood to sort out a…
A whopping 83.5 percent of local councils have voted to push back against newly-passed government legislation which forces councils to hold a…
For all those not in “the know,” SUIP is a new rates regime which has hit some 560 South Wairarapa ratepayers this…
Greater Wellington has set out a “pathway” advising what the Wellington region and central government must do to play their parts in…
Aidan Ellims spent eight of his 17 years in the police force working sole charge in Martinborough and would love to see…
While last week’s Local Government NZ conference was in the headlines with topics around infrastructure and spending, the event which was held…
Martinborough Community Board has admitted the “progress” it has made to date in untangling the web of obfuscations created by South Wairarapa…
I spent part of the last week at the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) annual conference. The conference got off to a…
