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Western Bay of Plenty District Council is trying to snuff out smoking outdoors with a smokefree policy targeting 30 of the district’s beaches.
They include the popular holiday spots of Waihi Beach, Maketu and Athenree – and the towns of Katikati and Te Puke.
Western Bay of Plenty District Mayor Ross Paterson said council hoped the policy would raise awareness of antipathy many people now have toward smoking in public areas.
“But it is a strong affirmation by this council to support a smokefree environment and to empower people to ask someone who is smoking to please stop,” he said.
“This is not a ban – council has no intention of taking any action against people for smoking in public spaces.”
Mr Paterson said he did not believe there would be any problems with the policy on the beaches.
“If we can raise the public’s awareness of the dangers of smoking on our children, young people, the environment and our communities in general, then I believe we are fulfilling our role as a responsible local authority. .
The policy was initiated by the Bay of Plenty Public Heath organisation Toi Te Ora.
Feedback on the policy was positive and only a couple of people had questioned how it would be enforced, he said.
Council staff had last week recommended the council make all council public facilities, except beaches, smokefree.
While 23 local bodies in New Zealand already have adopted smokefree policies, Western Bay was only the third to include beaches under its policy, the other two being Opotiki and Gisborne. This was unanimously backed by the council’s policy and planning committee, the Bay of Plenty Times reported.
But councillor Sam Dunlop moved another option be adopted, which included beaches in the list of smokefree public spaces.
Most people the paper spoke to in some of the affected areas supported the move, but many questioned how it would be policed.
Most people the paper spoke to in some of the affected areas supported the move, but many questioned how it would be policed.
A quick phone survey of residents in Waihi Beach and Maketu echoed those sentiments.
“You only have to go up to Tauranga Hospital to see it’s not working,” he said.
“But how the hell do you monitor this? Really what you are saying is people are just asked nicely not to smoke but can do so if they want?”
Associate Health Minister Health Tariana Turia commended the council on its policy.
One Waihi Beach resident, who asked not to be named, said while he smoked, he could see the advantage of making beaches smokefree.
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“Banning smoking in public spaces not only makes it harder for smokers to light up but it helps reduce youth uptake of smoking,” she said
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Animal control officers are applauding a dispute tribunal decision in which a Gisborne man successfully sued a farmer for more than $5000 after his car was written off when it hit a calf.
The case set a precedent, said Wairoa District Council animal control officer Des Jane.
The young man’s car hit a black Angus calf on State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Nuhaka about 8pm on April 10, while he was travelling to Gisborne. .
He did not swerve to attempt to avoid the animal because it would have resulted in rolling the car, further endangering his life and those of his four passengers.
The Nuhaka farmer who owned the calf was ordered to pay $5386 to cover the damage to the car. It was just fortunate no one was seriously injured or killed in the crash,” he told the tribunal.
The police report on the accident said it was not the first time there had been cattle on the road in this area and “it was only a matter of time before an accident like this was going to happen and somebody was going to be killed”.
Although it was common practice in the area to fence cows and calves with seven-wire fences, recently-weaned calves needed extra steps to be taken to stop them from escaping.
The calf had been recently weaned and the disputes tribunal found the Nuhaka farmer negligent because he did not take all reasonable steps to ensure adequate fencing.
Mr Jane said wandering stock in the district was a problem.
“Recently-weaned calves can be very unsettled and although they would not generally stray from their mothers (who were in the next paddock) they can be unpredictable and skittish,” the tribunal judgement said.
This case would be a wake-up call for farmers, he said.
Council animal control and the police spent a lot of time and effort getting farmers to improve their road fences and ongoing roadside fencing surveys had resulted in farmers being issued with notices to improve the standard of fences.
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One of the Government’s most vocal union critics has been paid almost $130,000 a year by the taxpayer to subsidise wages and expenses.
understands that the Corrections Department paid the Corrections Association and its president Beven Hanlon $127,727 in the 2008/2009 financial year.Another $32,215 was paid in airfares, $3163 in car rentals and taxis, $6226 in accommodation and another $41,233 described in papers as further “salaries and backfill”.This was made up of $44,889 in subsidising Mr Hanlon’s salary for the two days per week that he undertakes union business and the amount to hire a replacement for those days.Deputy Prime Minister Bill English recently hit out at the association saying it was effectively trying to tell the Government how many prisoners it could have.Mr Hanlon and the association are taking the Government to the Employment Court arguing that the commissioning of double bunked prison cells breaches guards’ collective agreement.Today Mr Hanlon said that Northland’s Ngawha Prison was like a “powder keg ready to explode”, a claim the department described as “alarmist”.Mr Hanlon has also criticised the Government’s push for privately run prisons and regularly clashes with the department over day-to-management in prisons.’I also understand that this money from the taxpayer has allowed the union to amass close to $2 million in savings,” Ms Collins said.Corrections Minister Judith Collins said she was very concerned at the amount being used to subsidise the union.”She had become aware of the payments due to an Official Information Act request and had asked Corrections Department boss Barry Matthews to look into the issue.”I would be interested to hear from the union how they can justify this and why they need funding from the taxpayer when it receives unions fees from members and has so much money supposedly in the bank.The argument that it might help smooth industrial relations was not evident from Mr Hanlon’s comments.Ms Collins said she did not believe Mr Matthews had been aware of the size of the payments until the OIA request alerted to him to it.The department had been asked to consider what to do about the payments. .
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Another 303 frontline staff will be hired
by Work and Income to help people find jobs, the Government said today.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said an extra $17.
“Work and Income agreed it could manage numbers on the unemployment benefit up to 60,000,” she said.2 million was being invested to pay for them because of rising unemployment.”
There were 55,272 people on the dole at the end of July, documents released today showed.
“However, as that figure grows closer, extra staff will be required.
“It’s important that help is provided upfront so as many people as possible can get work and avoid having to go on a benefit.
“Today’s announcement means the right resources can be deployed right now to the right areas,” she said. .”
Of the 303 extra staff, 104 have already been recruited to work in the Auckland area.
Speaking at a press conference in Auckland, Ms Bennett said she was asking more of her staff.
“Its vacancy numbers are actually more than 50 percent higher than for this time last year – despite growing unemployment,” she said. I’m asking them to do skill matches and where the person can go into,” she said.
“I’m asking them to look wider at the job market.
“But I can’t stress enough – we have to have the jobs there for our clients,” she said.
Work and Income’s regional commissioner for social development, Isabel Evans, said that with the extra staff the department would be on the front foot all the time.”
Statistics issued yesterday showed the unemployment rate had increased to 6 percent and the number of people without jobs was at a 10-year high of 138,000.
“Widening and broadening the number of employers we have working with us, talking to us when they do have any recruitment needs, is equally as important as working intensively and more closely with our clients.
The documents say the figures should be seen in perspective.
Overall, unemployment benefit numbers are up by 34,726, an increase of 169 percent, since July last year.
“At this time four years ago there were about 51,000 people receiving the unemployment benefit.
“In June 1999 over 150,000 people were receiving the unemployment benefit and in March 2003 it was around 100,000 – almost double what it is today.
Over that period the numbers for the age group rose from 4749 to 18,161.”
The documents say 18 to 24-year-olds accounted for 33 percent of people on the dole at the end of July, compared with 23 percent a year earlier.
.Frenchman Marc Gicquel has further compounded a losing season for once-promising Ernests Gulbis, hammering the Latvian 6-2, 6-3 to reach the second round at the Indianapolis Championships.
Uzbek eighth seed Denis Istomin staged a comeback to eliminate American Kevin Kim 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, in another first-round match at the hardcourt tournament.
Gicquel, ranked 82nd, had little to fear from his number 65 opponent, moving through in 61 minutes with a love game on his final service before a break of Gulbis to earn the victory.
Gulbis, a childhood Munich tennis academy friend of world number four Novak Djokovic, has gone badly off the boil this season, losing for the eighth time this year in a first round.
Gulbis stands a miserable 10-18 on the season and has not won two matches in a row since Cincinnati last August when he reached the quarter-finals against Djokivic.
The 20-year-old Latvian was playing for the first time in close toly a month after going out in the Wimbledon second round to another ex-junior rival, Britain’s Andy Murray.
The tournament is reeling from the late injury pullout of Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick, still claiming the hip flexor injury which bothered him in his All England club finals loss a fortnight ago to Roger Federer. .
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Dmitry Tursunov, the California-based Russian who won here in 2007 and lost last year’s final to Gilles Simon of France, took the top seeding ahead of Israeli Davis Cup player Dudi Sela with American Sam Querrey the number three
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Growing economic confidence has been knocked by New Zealand being placed on negative creditwatch as the Government puts its hat out to international lenders.
International ratings agency Fitch said it was worried about New Zealand’s high debt levels and reliance on overseas borrowing.
The agency confirmed New Zealand’s rating at AA plus, but yesterday’s decision to revise its outlook for New Zealand’s credit rating from stable to negative came out of the blue.
Any threat of a downgrade could push up borrowing costs.
It comes as the Government looks to increase its borrowing the Budget foreshadowed a need to borrow $34 billion over the next four years to help cushion the blow of a recession. The Government had so far managed to raise money “at a reasonable cost”.
But Finance Minister English said he was confident that would not happen.
But with the Fitch warning coming as it prepared to seek more money between now and Christmas, more assurances may be required. No doubt this kind of new rating will mean they’ve got a few more questions. “We are setting out to borrow a large amount of money and we’re going to be going to those investors who are lending us to tell them our story.
A credit downgrade hung over the Government in the leadup to the May Budget, but its decision to cancel the next round of tax cuts and trim spending looked to have staved that off, with one of the biggest ratings agencies, Standard & Poor’s, awarding an upgrade.”
Earlier in the year, there were serious concerns the global credit crunch would leave money in short supply and force the Government to borrow at higher rates. Analysts said it also appeared to be worried about the risk of another housing market bubble, funded by overseas borrowings.
Fitch said it was worried about the medium-term growth outlook for New Zealand given its persistently large current account deficit and rising indebtedness.
Fitch head of Asia Pacific sovereign ratings James McCormack told Radio New Zealand today that he thought New Zealand’s current account deficit was a structural feature of the economy.
Fitch head of Asia Pacific sovereign ratings James McCormack told Radio New Zealand today that he thought New Zealand’s current account deficit was a structural feature of the economy.”
That would mean spending cuts. .
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Fitch was not critical of the Government providing tax cuts, saying countries all over the world were trying to provide short term stimulus during a global recession
