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Councillor apologises over Otago lead contamination: We re sorry this community went through this 15 Feb, 2021 07:36 AM 3 minutes to read The source of occasional elevated lead levels is not known, but the frequency of testing and range of methods have been boosted. Photo / RNZ The source of occasional elevated lead levels is not known, but the frequency of testing and range of methods have been boosted. Photo / RNZ Otago Daily Times By: Grant Miller Sorry may be a hard word to use, but one Dunedin councillor has not shied away from it over lead contamination of drinking water. Councillor Andrew Whiley joined several councillors in praising the way Dunedin City Council staff had handled the situation in the past month, including knocking on doors to advise affected residents not to drink from their tap water and providing an alternative supply. ....
Conservation Comment: Draft Climate Change Strategy is a good start 14 Feb, 2021 08:27 PM 3 minutes to read We live in a flood zone: we need to think smarter. Photo / Giles Conley Wanganui Midweek OPINION Thank you WDC councillors, especially Councillor Taylor, council staff and iwi advisers who all helped in writing WDC Draft Climate Change Strategy/Te Rautaki Huringa Ahuarangi. This is great progress from five or so years ago when there seemed no recognition of this elephant in the room in any annual or 10 Year Plan. Thanks also to the school students and community members who organised our local rallies and the citizens who joined them. The efforts of regular writers to our papers who have kept these concerns before us also need acknowledging. ....
(MENAFN - Kashmir Observer) Representational Photo Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a councillor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC)-Kargil Zakir Hussian who was arrested last year and charged with sedition and other offences for his audio clip mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Army in the wake of the face-off between India and China in Ladakh. …the offences charged against the petitioner (Zakir Hussain) are not made out and, therefore, the registration of FIR, which has culminated into filing of the Final Police Report without previous sanction from the competent authority before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kargil is sheer abuse of the process of law, Justice Sanjeev Kumar while allowing the petition filed by Zakir Hussain. ....
The pressure felt by women who work as local authority elected members “just weeks after giving birth”, owing to a lack of proper maternity provision in the State, is “simply unacceptable in 2021”. ....
Waikato Regional councillor suspended from council meetings over angry and abusive behaviour 11 Feb, 2021 12:03 AM 4 minutes to read Waikato Regional Councillor Fred Lichtwark has had his membership from most council committees suspended. Photo / Supplied Waikato Regional Councillor Fred Lichtwark has had his membership from most council committees suspended. Photo / Supplied Herald reporter based in [email protected] A Waikato Regional councillor has been suspended from attending committee meetings over angry and abusive behaviour. The council held an emergency meeting this morning and voted in favour of second-term councillor Fred Lichtwark being suspended from all committees, subcommittees and other representative roles until August 31, when the suspension will be reviewed. ....