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What's more we were self sufficient in fuel and gas offering strategic protection from external disruption. We are now heading back towards the "one bad shipment stopping the nations car/truck fleet". BTW "Think Big"was largely the brain child and project of the Hon. Bill Birch. One of the most intelligent men to ever grace the Treasury Benches. A farmer as well and a thorough gentlemen. One of my best ever life memories was being picked up by him in the Crown Ministerial Limo and touring the LPG installations in Christchurch and Lyttelton when I was a candidate in the 1984 General Election.

Then if you were consistent you would apply the same rules to the Judiciary.

It's not secondary to the perceived integrity of the Racing Judiciary. It's fundamental. End of Story.

How was it a "massive failure"? Were these projects "massive failure's"? methanol plant at Waitara ammonia/urea plant at Kapuni synthetic-petrol plant at Motunui expansion of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery expansion of the New Zealand Steel plant at Glenbrook electrification of the North Island Main Trunk Railway between Te Rapa and Palmerston North a third reduction line at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, near Bluff the Clyde Dam on the Clutha River. The projects weren't limited to those though. They definitely make the PGF look a waste of time.

I have worked in the system for a number of DHB's. Every one of them was the same. Managed by administrative risk averse bureaucrats with SFA spent on the front line staff. Been like it for decades. There is no way anything has changed in the 4 1/2 years Labour has been in power especially during the pandemic. The only thing that has been different is less work has been done.

That's purely perception driven by political propaganda. Things have got worse under this Government whose only solution is to create a mega DHB and a Maori Health Authority with the power of veto. Although the chances of them completing the changes are very remote. The 9 years of National Government neglect is nonsense too. Any new hospitals built or more ICU beds under this Labour Government for $120 billion debt?

Be surprised.

As opposed to your socialist view where everyone should be dragged down to be the same. Ardern has perfected that.

Your posts are aligned to the lunar cycle.

Not by lack of intellect.

Your observations ARE limited.

The National Party actually.

Well I do actually having run for Parliament myself.

Well I do actually having run for Parliament myself.

The point is you wouldn't be able to.

Breaking news! Edward Rennell to replace Glenda Hughes as CEO of GRNZ.

Just quoted the evidence. This site isn't a Blog and yes it does qualify as social media. Geez you really are showing your age.

Hint: You just posted on social media.

Don't they employ the CEO?

Why not? BTW your social media postings would exclude you and we all know you aren't 16 anymore.

Levin Racing Club to consider transferring assets and joining RACE Levin Racing Club is considering ceding outright ownership of possibly the biggest plot of bare land left in town. The LRC committee has called a Special General Meeting of members to decide whether to transfer ownership of its entire land holdings to RACE Inc, a corporate amalgamation of Manawatū, Marton, Feilding, Rangitikei and Wellington Racing Clubs. Levin Racing Club is asset-rich, owning freehold title to more than 120 acres of prime land on Mako Mako Road where racehorses are trained. It also has $1 million in cash reserves. Club members are being asked to vote whether or not to join RACE and transfer all land assets to RACE Inc. A condition of joining RACE would see the racecourse leased back to LRC as a training hub, however its viability would be under periodic review. LRC president Bruce McCarrison said the club was under pressure to amalgamate as the code's governing body New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) pushes a centralisation model. Levin Track Trust Chairman Bruce McCarrison. He said the motivation for pursuing the relationship with RACE came from discussions with NZTR more than a year ago that the club could face the possibility of an enforced sale. "NZTR has spoken to us about it and basically said make a decision or we will," he said. "They see assets not being utilised to their full potential. There are too many tracks for the number of horses, and that includes training tracks. It's seen as dead money." McCarrison said he was acting on a mandate he received at the club's Annual General Meeting last year to enter discussions with RACE and negotiate terms. He said the proposal would guarantee the training track's immediate future and under the partnership LRC would have two seats on the RACE board. As part of the deal the LRC plans to transfer $500,000 from its $1 million of cash reserves to its subsidiary Levin Track Operating Trust for day-to-day management of the training centre. LRC had received guidance from former RACE chief executive Alisdair Roberston in negotiations with RACE, he said. McCarrison said the club hadn't obtained a current market valuation of its landholdings, but his estimate was $10 million "at least". The club currently held three annual licenced race meetings at the Ōtaki-Māori Racing Club's racecourse. Those meetings could be held at Trentham or Awapuni in future under the RACE partnership, he said. It wasn't the first time that LRC members had been asked to cede ownership. In 2006 a majority of members voted heavily against a motion to sell out when its track and landholdings were estimated to be worth $4 million. LRC's membership was in decline for a number of years, although there had been a recent surge in interest with the club receiving 35 membership applications in the last few months - albeit some were lapsed subscriptions. In a May club newsletter McCarrison said he was concerned by a heightened interest in membership and new members would not have voting rights at the SGM. Since then the committee's position had changed and new members could now vote at the SGM. Not all membership applications were accepted, however. The motion would need a 75 per cent majority vote of members to pass under the club's constitution, he said. The notice of the SGM first appeared on July 1 calling for a meeting on July 24. The meeting had since been rescheduled to 11am, August 21, at Levin Cosmopolitan Club. There had been a request for audited copies of all club accounts, copies of trust deeds from all LRC's subsidiaries, and copies of the draft agreements with RACE to be provided to members prior to the SGM. The new stalls at Levin racecourse have room for 120 horses. Levin Racing Club was once the poster club for rural New Zealand Racing with a midweek meeting in the early 1980s that boasted the third-highest on-course turnover of any meeting in the country. The course was closed as a racing venue in the early 1990s. In 2008 the club formed a trust and partnered with a development company to build 50 villas on the old racecourse car park, with the intention that profits and an annual return be used to subsidise and safeguard the track as an equine training venue. The club had recently invested more than $700,000 on 120 new tie-up stalls at the course.

I would guess that his funding went West hence the key staff turnover.

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