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The government has distributed Covid Cash to employers with gay abandon – not so fast Hoss please hold your horse.
You actually have to fill out forms, provide all business and employee details for every employee for which you then get a set amount depending on the criteria and besides in order to get that sweet sweet easy Covid Cash you actually have to prove to have lost quite a bit of business before Grant Robertson is happy to part with what he seems to consider his money. So much so that many businesses in NZ only received the original payment for lockdown l4 that was handed out to pretty much every one in NZ. Never mind, blame everyone for the big businesses that did not need it but took it anyways.
Tucked a few streets back from former prime minister William Massey s beautiful old homestead in Māngere East is an urban Garden of Eden.
South Auckland community leaders say council s new resource recovery strategy needs to do more to address illegal dumping.
Photo: LDR / Tina Tiller
A veritable vegetarian feast sprouts from an array of brightly painted tyres and lovingly restored wooden pallets nestled at the back of the ME Family Service Centre s offices. The site also boasts a secondhand and bric-a-brac store, which includes a plethora of building supplies and furniture goods.
It s all part of a community recycling centre run by the organisation s Talking Rubbish team, with one of the widest ranges of recycled items in South Auckland. It offers visitors the chance to buy or trade for homeware, clothes, toys, car seats and even timber and plumbing materials.