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Two Canterbury councils and the Green Party have indicated support for a bill to entrench Ngai Tāhu representation at the Environment Canterbury council table.
Speaking to an audience of about 70 people, most of whom identified as farmers, at the Mackenzie Community Centre on Friday – Seymour said New Zealand is facing an avalanche of regulations. He spoke about the wave of challenges people - especially in the rural sector - were likely to face in the coming years. “What you will see is an avalanche of regulation at a time when our primary production sector is doing everything to keep New Zealand on its feet,” Seymour said.
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Act Party leader David Seymour faced a range of questions at the Mackenzie Community Centre on Friday.
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The size of the hail that hit Timaru in a storm in November 2019, causing more than $170 million in damage.
Multi-million dollar insurance payouts for fires and a storm were big news in The Timaru Herald during November, writes Doug Sail in an ongoing review of 2020. The insurance bill for Timaru’s 2019 hailstorm reached $170.98m in November making it New Zealand’s costliest weather event this century. The Insurance Council of New Zealand’s (ICNZ) figures released a few days before the one-year anniversary of the storm, listed the hailstorm in the top five of the most expensive natural disasters since it began keeping records in 1968.