The Waitaki District Council is about to start the process of
setting its rates, considering how to cut back a predicted 6%
rates increase for the next financial year.
A new report on land at Forrester Heights on Cape Wanbrow has
given clearance for the infrastructure the Waitaki District
Council needs to build for a 27-section subdivision.
An art auction at St Kevins College is the first to benefit
from a new scheme in the Waitaki district aimed at
encouraging people to look at their waste as a resource.
The death of a 10-year-old boy when his motorcycle and a
Nissan sports utility vehicle collided on a Duntroon farm in
2008 was "an outcome of a number of, in themselves, innocuous
events", Dunedin coroner David Crerar has said.
A new group plans to boost the cycling opportunities around
Oamaru, reviving the old BMX track in Mill Rd as a
multipurpose facility to link with an extensive network of
tracks.
