February 23 2016
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Flying the flag options
p Bailie Schick tries his hand at extinguishing a fire at the Dargaville Volunteer Fire Brigade open day as his brother Hunter looks on. Whilst the main aim of the day was to recruit more volunteers, there was also plenty of opportunity to show the community the type of work volunteers do, and to share a few fire safety tips along the way.
The Kaipara District Council are flying both the current New Zealand flag…
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Increasing in–house skill for elections u by Ayla Miller
A number of new positions are being created within the Kaipara District Council as the organisation prepares for the triennial elections in October and deals with an increase in building and commercial activity across the district.
Track to recognise service
After years of planning, three exservicemen will walk almost a kilometre through forest …
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Acting KDC chief executive Dr McPherson said these positions have been created as a result of changes made under the recommendation of the office of the auditor general. “It was recommended that we improve the capacity of the organisation and we
agreed with them. It is better to have professional staff inside an organisation and typically cheaper to do it that way. “We are also increasing our staff to process resource and build consents because building activity has increased considerably. There are more food
and liquor premises starting up so we are looking at increasing staff around licencing and regulatory as well. This is covered by the fees we charge so it is not ratepayers’ money.” continued on page 3 …
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