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25 May
The Australian Agricultural Company will ditch legal action it was pursuing against a subsidiary of its major shareholder, after Futuris last week gained control of the AACo board at its annual general meeting.
According to today’s Australian Financial Review, the AACo has launched a $40 million damages claim against Elders, which is owned by Futuris.
AACo alleged [...]
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12 Apr
Police human resources general manager Wayne Annan confirmed today police had been speaking to their Singapore counterparts about recruiting a group of up to 20 Singaporean officers in order to boost understanding of Asian culture among local police.
The purpose of it is for New Zealand police to be able to learn about Asian cultures.
It had [...]
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12 Apr
Isabel Allende, the passionate expatriate queen of Latin American fiction writers, lives just as you might imagine - in a film-starrish, peach-coloured, faux Spanish castle, on a wooded hilltop.
Aptly named La Casa de los Esp%26iacute;ritus (The House of The Spirits) after her phenomenal best-seller first novel, its an hour north of San Francisco, with an [...]
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12 Apr
Police human resources general manager Wayne Annan confirmed today police had been speaking to their Singapore counterparts about recruiting a group of up to 20 Singaporean officers in order to boost understanding of Asian culture among local police.
The purpose of it is for New Zealand police to be able to learn about Asian cultures.
It had [...]
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22 Mar
In a Board Paper dated August 16, 2001, submitted by the then General Manager, issued specific instructions for the legal officers of the bank to execute deeds of transfer in respect of loans for the purchase of property at a fee already approved by the bank. The reason for this was because many applicants had [...]
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01 Mar
The Registrar of Retirement Villages, Neville Harris, said yesterday he was investigating and both Senior Citizens Minister Ruth Dyson and MP Jim Anderton have taken up the residents cause.
Dyson said a similar situation in South Auckland had been resolved, partly through public pressure.
The eight residents of Crossdale Courts in Riccarton were told two weeks ago [...]
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22 Feb
Anglican Care, which owns the Riversdale Lifestyle Village in Taradale, looked to remove Alwin Kenneth Woodbury, 71, after he was found guilty, but cannot legally evict him.
Woodbury was sentenced in Napier District Court yesterday to 12 months home detention and 200 hours community work after a jury had found him guilty of four charges related [...]
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22 Feb
Anglican Care, which owns the Riversdale Lifestyle Village in Taradale, looked to remove Alwin Kenneth Woodbury, 71, after he was found guilty, but cannot legally evict him.
Woodbury was sentenced in Napier District Court yesterday to 12 months home detention and 200 hours community work after a jury had found him guilty of four charges related [...]
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03 Feb
SOME suffer financial hardship, others think barristers’ final
addresses are too long. Almost all agree they would like a coffee
machine nearby when they are considering their verdicts.
The comments have come from Supreme Court jurors who have spoken
to Justice Bernard Teague since 2006 after serving in criminal
trials that he had run.
In what is believed to be an [...]
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02 Feb
SOME suffer financial hardship, others think barristers’ final
addresses are too long. Almost all agree they would like a coffee
machine nearby when they are considering their verdicts.
The comments have come from Supreme Court jurors who have spoken
to Justice Bernard Teague since 2006 after serving in criminal
trials that he had run.
In what is believed to be an [...]