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A respect and dignity bylaw has been passed in Gisborne banning the culturally abhorrent practice of sending mortuary waste to sea.
Kiwa group chairman Ian Ruru said it was a big day on Wednesday both for water reforms and Te Mana o te Wai.
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Ian Ruru, who leads the Kiwa group set up to provide cultural advice and technical support to the district council, said it was a big day for water reforms and Te Mana o te Wai - the health and wellbeing of water. It s official, our respect and dignity bylaw was passed, Ruru said.
Has this landed where we wanted it to?
That was Gisborne district councillor Kerry Worsnop s question for the table as elected members deliberated the region s rates for the next 10 years.
Worsnop pointed to an East Coast property worth $95,000 facing a rate increase of 4.3 percent, or $62, compared to a $1.22 million property in Gisborne s Lytton West, where rates would only increase by $55.
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She pointed to an East Coast property worth $95,000 facing a rate increase of 4.3 percent, or $62, compared to a $1.22 million property in Gisborne s Lytton West, where rates would only increase by $55. That just seems bizarre and ridiculous if you re trying to address affordability because that trend is perpetuated across all of the rural townships, Cr Worsnop said.
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