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Wednesday 24 August 2016
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Maling slams TDC over ‘cock-ups’ Tasman mayoral candidate Kit Maling has fired the first shots in this year’s council election campaign, saying there has been no accountability for a series of bad decisions that have wasted millions of dollars under mayor Richard Kempthorne’s leadership. Kit made the allegations this week after obtaining information
from council under the Official Simon Bloomberg Information Act that showed it Reporter Senior reporter had spent $2.7million on resolvsimon@waimeaweekly.co.nz ing a dispute about coastal erosion with a property owner at ment. Jackett Island. He also criticised “There have been three key cockRichard and council for wasting ups while Richard’s been mayor $1.3million on a Lower Queen St which have cost the ratepayers of land deal with developers VCPL Tasman millions,” Kit says. “It’s and a $500,000 overspend on the poor leadership and no one has council’s Mapua Shed 4 develop- been held accountable and, other
than Mapua, no one has ever said sorry.” However, Richard disputes Kit’s claims saying council has done everything right. He says council had to pay out in the Jackett Island dispute and VCPL land deal because of court rulings while the only mistake council made in the Mapua Wharf development was failing to report the overspend
earlier. “Council has achieved a lot of good things but we continually have issues that sometimes don’t go as you expect and Jackett Island was one of those. But we’ve finally got to the end of it and the court has found that council is not going to be responsible for
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Classic cars cruising to fight cancer Simon Bloomberg
Nelson Vintage Car Club members Les Tomlinson, left, and Trevor Evans will be helping to deliver daffodils around Nelson and Tasman for Daffodil Day. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
Nelson Vintage Car Club members seldom need an excuse to get their pride and joys out of the garage and go for a spin but this week they had an extra good reason to cruise the streets of Nelson as they joined around 500 volunteers helping out with Daffodil Day. Volunteers have already been busy picking and bunching thousands of daffodils and the first deliveries started on Tuesday when seven members of the Nelson Vintage Car Club drove volunteers around the region in style to deliver pre-ordered flowers to businesses. It is the first time that the club has been
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