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Open mike 07/11/09
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Regarding the Foreshore debate. Anyone throw light on Shipwreck Bay at Ahipara as apparently now off limits?
I googled it and there was a Maori television program at the end of October about surfers going round the country where Shipwreck Bay was mentioned as being a good place to go.
A couple of tourists there last week reported that there is now a gate on the beach access and there is a charge to get through…
Other places have trouble cleaning up their chronic overpayments to people in sinecures.
In California there are numbers of individuals being paid about $100,000 for serving on organisations that require only two meetings a month. A politician put forward a motion to revise this which was turned down flat!
See at below – City Journal seems interesting.
http://www.city-journal.org/
William Voegeli
The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm
Where is the CycleWatch series at?
Haven’t seen it for a while?
[lprent: Now that is a very good question… ]