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Chairman Allan Birchfield commented at the time the quarries were more trouble than they were worth, and further sales were on the cards. In his report to Friday’s council meeting, operation manager Randal Beal spelled out the downside of quarry ownership. “Council has fixed costs associated with quarries that include annual fees, compliance, management and audit costs regardless of the volume of production from the individual quarries.” Issues raised by Audit NZ over tonnages and royalties each year were time-consuming to resolve and often required the peer review of an independent party, Beal said. The quarries offered a service for communities in need of flood protection, but were failing to pay their way and general ratepayers were funding the deficit. ....