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A fresh blast of freezing weather is expected to strike the North Island today, just days after heavy snow stranded motorists and left hundreds without power.
Motorists are being urged not to venture out unless their journey is absolutely necessary as heavy rain is expected to turn to snow.
The MetService has issued several severe weather warnings ahead of the storm, with heavy snow forecast to fall as low as 200 metres in Canterbury and Marlborough and 600m in the Central North Island today.
The AA warned that the Desert Road, which was closed for part of last weekend, could have up to 10cm of snow and drivers on other roads, particularly in the South Island, might need to have chains fitted.co.
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“We’re advising motorists to be aware of the conditions before setting out as snow may close state highways in both islands during Friday and Saturday.nz head weather analyst Philip Duncan said the timing was terrible for families returning from school holiday trips around the country.
Meanwhile, Wellington police today warned motorists to take extra care on the roads as heavy rain pounded the capital earlier today.”
Strong southerly winds on Saturday could create blizzards on the Desert Road and motorists should have alternate routes in mind in case of road closures, he said.
Trains were also being affected by the downpour, with a service running from Johnsonville to Wellington city train being replaced by buses as a result of flooding.
A central police communications spokesperson said the heavy rain and surface flooding had been a factor in several small accidents and urged drivers to drive to the conditions and watch their following distance.
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Defiant Mapua artist Roger Griffiths today made a stand against Westpac by withdrawing his $190,000 savings in $20 notes.
The bank provided a red-and-black carry bag to take away the cash after meticulously counting it in front of Mr Griffiths at its Nelson branch.
Mr Griffiths, a loyal Westpac customer for 25 years, decided to withdraw his money after the bank rejected his application for an $80,000 mortgage.”
He said the bank turned down his application because he did not have a regular income as an artist. “It’s about time normal people took a stand.
He wanted to buy a $385,000 property in Mapua, had $200,000 in cash and was going to sell his $110,000 campervan. However, he was a successful artist, exhibiting his paintings at the World of Wearable Art complex, in Christchurch and New York, he said.
That more than met the bank’s criteria for a 20 per cent deposit, and the property which included a home and commercial premises would have returned $500 a week, he said.
“They can lose $110 million with LWR but turn down a normal customer who has never missed a loan payment,” he said.
He was disappointed when his loan application was rejected, but it was Westpac losing $111 million to Lane Walker Rudkin Industries that tipped his decision to withdraw his money.”
Having decided to withdraw his money, he then decided to make it hard for the bank by requesting payment in $20 bills. “If they don’t have the trust in me after 25 years, there’s a problem for Westpac. However, he insisted the bank have the money ready to collect at 9am today. . He then took it to the Nelson Building Society, saying he would rather deal with NBS because it was part of the community. He then took it to the Nelson Building Society, saying he would rather deal with NBS because it was part of the community. On Tuesday its former Alexandra bank manager admitted defrauding the bank of more than $400,000, and it has been left red-faced over the slip-up that allowed $10 million to be wrongly credited to a Rotorua service station co-owner who had since fled to China.”
Mr Griffiths’ protest comes after a series of embarrassments for Westpac.
“It’s about providing evidence of an ability to meet regular repayments.
Westpac media relations manager Craig Dowling said today that when the bank lent money it required certain information to be provided to enable that lending to be done prudently.”
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Maori Affairs and Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples says he wants Maori to have free access to universities but only if they pass a course showing they have reached required standards. .
“We have seen how the dice are loaded against Maori, right through the school system.
Equal educational opportunities were a myth without support for those who needed special help, Dr Sharples said in a speech at Victoria University.”
This afternoon Dr Sharples clarified that he did not expect unqualified Maori to be immediately accepted into courses.
“That is not any reflection on the academic potential of our young people.”
Universities run such courses and students learn skills such as essay writing.
“It’s just providing entry for people to attend a student learning centre where they can reach the standard to do a degree.
“A lot of things can appear to be divisive until people see them in perspective and see them actually working.
Dr Sharples rejected that the idea was divisive. Action was needed.”
The situation now where half of Maori boys were not gaining NCEA qualifications was “stupid, ridiculous and it’s just intolerable”.
“Maori can’t do any worse than the results are saying they do in schools.
He disagreed easier access to tertiary study could be a disincentive. . It’s sad we have to come to universities and put this proposal but something has to be done. Maybe this will make the schools look at what they were doing. .
“Reserved places for Maori have proven the ability of Maori students to rise to the challenge if they are given the opportunity.”
The open access of the wananga system had shown that it was possible to take students who had dipped out of school and “fire them up”, even if they had a “miserable” academic record.
Prime Minister John Key said he expected to debate the issue with Dr Sharples, but he viewed it as more important that the Government resolve underlying issues of poor literacy and numeracy.”
He would be pushing the plan with the Government and saw it as part of a long-term goal to set up a Maori education authority and Maori language excellence centre, Dr Sharples said yesterday.
“Maori need solutions to a problem, not a problem disguised as a solution,” he said.
“He’s given a perspective and he’s fully entitled to do that,” he said of Dr Sharples.
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No sex please, we’re Wellingtonians
Saturday, 20 December 2008
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NEVER AGAIN: Porn king Steve Crow says this year’s Boobs on Bikes parade and sexpo was the first and the last to be held in Wellington.
Porn king Steve Crow has vented his naked anger at miserly Wellington residents, saying this year's Boobs on Bikes parade and sexpo was the first and the last in the city.
Mr Crow has ditched the sex festivities in the city after fewer than 6000 people attended the Erotica Lifestyle Expo. .
It appears the city's residents were more interested in exercising their democratic right than their libidos and bedroom fantasies the expo fell on polling day for the general election last month. It is the first time an erotica expo has ever made a loss.
"We lost a very substantial amount of money."
Up to 15,000 people were expected, and 10,000 budgeted for."
Mr Crow conceded the election may have contributed to the poor crowds. "To get under 6000 was disappointing. If $20 entry is too expensive, then it is ridiculous. But he also suspected that Wellingtonians had deep pockets and short arms:
"I had people complaining that is was too expensive. The event was "not really Wellington's scene"."
Wellington City councillor and parade opponent Celia Wade-Brown said Wellingtonians were not prudes, but had taste.
Mr Crow said 8000 people went to an erotica expo in Palmerston North, which would continue.
Mr Crow said 8000 people went to an erotica expo in Palmerston North, which would continue."
. I would rather spend $100,000 on buses for people from Wellington to go there than hold it in Wellington
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Kiwis' expectations for the economy are the gloomiest since 2001, but we are in denial about how it will affect us personally, an annual survey has found.
UMR Research's Christmas survey has found that 43 per cent of Kiwis rate the economy as the biggest issue facing New Zealand – the highest number for any issue since the survey began eight years ago.
While 54 per cent worried the economic downturn would affect living standards, only 24 per cent expected their own standard of living to drop. .
Infometrics economist Chris Worthington said reduced interest rates and petrol prices could be helping to ease Kiwis' fears.
Seventy-eight per cent expected unemployment to increase, but only 61 per cent worried that it would be them getting the chop."
An optimistic outlook could be a boost to the economy. "That's probably providing a boost on an individual level."
Australians are tightening their belts further, with greater numbers spending less in every sector of the economy, including household basics and Christmas presents.
"The thing you're worried about is if people suddenly stop spending all at the same time.