Auckland rental property bond lodgements plummet 30% in February: 4 possible reasons
4 May, 2021 02:00 AM
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Auckland bond lodgments dropped 30 per cent in February compared to last year. Photo / Peter Meecham
Auckland bond lodgments dropped 30 per cent in February compared to last year. Photo / Peter Meecham
The number of new Auckland residential bonds lodged with the state service for rental properties plummeted 30 per cent in February this year compared to last February, official statistics show. Bonds lodged is the best new tenancy indication but what would have usually been the busiest month of the year became a four-year slump.
The reasons for the change are not yet clear and nor is it clear if that pattern will continue.
Internet restored to remaining Whanganui properties following outage
3 May, 2021 02:00 AM
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All properties in the St Johns Hill and Otamatea areas have had their internet restored. Photo / 123RF
All properties in the St Johns Hill and Otamatea areas have had their internet restored. Photo / 123RF
Broadband is now restored to all 600-plus Whanganui properties following an outage over the weekend.
Two underground Ultrafast Fibre cables were cut on Friday afternoon, leaving 660 customers in the St Johns Hill and Otamatea area without internet.
Broadband had been restored to 648 customers by Saturday night with the final 22 customers having their internet restored early this morning.
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BATON ROUGE - Employers are now dealing with a new crisis as the economy begins to rebound from the pandemic.
Some business owners say they re struggling with finding enough staff members. To remedy this, a joint job fair and vaccination event was hosted Saturday by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The goal of the event was to fill jobs and get workers vaccinated.
LWC teamed up with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, State Senator Regina Barrow, BREC and Employ BR to bring the event to life. The job fair and vaccine site took place at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Internet restored after sliced fibre cables cause outage in Whanganui
1 May, 2021 11:00 PM
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288 individual fibres needed to be re-spliced overnight on Saturday. Photo / 123RF
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Broadband has been restored to more than 600 Whanganui properties after a 30-hour operation to restore severed fibre cables.
Two underground Ultrafast Fibre cables were completely were cut, leaving 660 customers in the St Johns Hill and Otamatea area without internet on Friday afternoon.
Ultrafast Fibre chief operations officer Richard Riley said he understood the outage was caused by third-party contractors who were working in the area.