November 11 2014
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Sports award winners New Sport Northland chair looks ahead Kaipara man Chris Biddles has ascended to the top job in Northland Sport …
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Camp gives support
At the age of eight, Taylor Martinovich was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and what followed, was a lonely and confusing time for her family …
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Northland rugby player Matthew Moulds won the supreme award at the Kaipara Sports Awards held in Dargaville on Friday evening. However, he was on holiday in Bali so his father Mike and sister Elaina accepted on his behalf. Pictured (from left) are guest speaker FIFA referee Peter O’Leary, Mike Moulds, sportswoman of the year Toni Atkinson, Elaina Moulds and Lance Warmington from awards sponsor Silver Fern Farms. For more on the awards see page 5 …
Legal action begins on rates by Colin Patterson
The Kaipara District Council has taken legal action to recover unpaid rates in the wake of protests from Mangawhai ratepayers objecting to increases to pay for the town’s budget-busting wastewater scheme.
Cancer centre becomes a reality
Northland has done it! It has taken three years but the Jim Carney Cancer Treatment Centre is open …
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Those non-payers have now been issued with summonses to appear in court. Among them are Mangawhai Ratepayers and Residents Association chairman Bruce Rogan and his wife Heather.
If payments are not received, the court has the power to authorise the council to seize and sell property to recover outstanding rates. Mr Rogan said the High Court had ruled that the rates were unlawful, except that they had subsequently
been validated by parliament in a Bill sponsored by Northland MP Mike Sabin. However the association had appealed that judgement to the Court of Appeal. continued on page 3 …
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