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Botany and Ormiston Times : Botany and Ormiston Times Thursday August 18 2016
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Get on trend! Grow your customers, build your sales and profits with us. Phone 271 8068, email sales@times.co.nz NZ READERSHIP ACROSS A WEEK The 2015 Nielsen Media Trends Report shows community newspapers have more readers a week in NZ than daily newspapers Source: Nielsen Survey 01-04-2014 15+ . All people NZ 15+ . Readership across a week comparison Community v Daily newspaper. ADVERTISERS 62% COMMUNITYNEWSPAPER 56% DAILYNEWSPAPER Botany and Ormiston NEWS ROOM Editor Nick Krause 271 8000 editor@times.co.nz ADVERTISING Advertising Manager Michele Chapman 271 8068 sales@times.co.nz Classifieds 271 8055 classifieds@times.co.nz CIRCULATION/DELIVERY JOBS Emma Smith 271 8014 papers@times.co.nz Published weekly on Thursday Printed by Beacon Print and delivered weekly to 14,570 homes. Published by Times Newspapers Ltd, Botany Town Centre. PO Box 259 243, Botany, Auckland 2163, NZ Ph 271 8000 facebook.com/ TimesOnlineNZ Read the news online www.times.co.nz FREE – thanks to our advertisers! 2 — Botany and Ormiston Times, Thursday, August 18, 2016 www.times.co.nz TIMESWORD Answers under Public Notices in the Classifieds section. PUZZLE NO. 7770 12345 6 78 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 CRYPTIC ACROSS 6. High spot for most (3,4,4). 7. She’s no longer a buyer (4). 8. What kept mum in the car? (8). 9. Rookie of the month, Frost is (6). 10. A river creature comes into the argument (6). 12. Supports the attitudes taken (6). 15. Being in short supply, have a second in reserve (6). 17. As an epidemic would, should a germ escape from the lab? (5,3). 19. A number I brought back from the island (4). 20. What enables one to make cutting remarks? (5,6). CRYPTIC DOWN 1. Later on I got a telling off (8). 2. She is up in the migra- tion of bees (6). 3. It’s old and oddly impassive (6). 4. Try to curry favour with the pretty little creature (4). 5. Test playing again, in a way (6). 6. To the beat, try and dance (5). 11. Call into the base, worried, to get one’s location (8). 13. To beat the time by an hour, has had to shift (6). 14. Bends down and fills a hold in (6). 15. Attacks while the tennis match is in progress (4,2). 16. Because that’s what “thenceforth” means (5). 18. A block on, see a man (4). ACROSS 6. Thriftless (11) 7. Market (4) 8. Fuel (8) 9. Outcome (6) 10. Cad (6) 12. Powerful (6) 15. Angle (6) 17. Timetable (8) 19. Stylish (4) 20. Quibble (11) DOWN 1. Hole (8) 2. Projectile (6) 3. Reflector (6) 4. Minus (4) 5. Posture (6) 6. Cross (5) 11. Renegade (8) 13. Seize (6) 14. Bird (6) 15. Clergyman (6) 16. Banish (5) 18. Flat (4) Just Hardwood Floors Visit our showroom: 9 Allens Road, East Tamaki (rear unit) Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm & Sat 10.30am-1pm. Email: sales@jhf.co.nz Supply & installation of quality timber flooring. 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KC11421-V2 CHAPEL • RECEPTION LOUNGE • OFFICE For personal, professional service to all districts at all hours Robert Johnstone • Mark Rowley 35 Wellington St Howick Ph 534 7300 www.howickfuneralhome.nz 128336-V4 local body elections Labouring to bring cultural diversity ➤➤ From page 1 Health and protection/technical officer with Auckland Regional Public Health services, Gyanandra Kumar, believes that with years of experience on the District Health Board, he has been privy to how the Auckland Council and the District Health Board operate. “I can see the remedial measures and can implement them if given the chance,” says the former policeman from Fiji. “Unfortunately, there has been very less communication between the community members and the councillors. With a huge development of population in the Ormistion area, there are so many issues that no one has paid any heed to.” Talking about a road safety issue that has rankled him, he says: “Look at the narrow bridge that connects Chapel Road to Ormiston Road. There have been heaps of accidents there. A lot of people approach me since I am a Justice of Peace, but nothing is being done. The local board has not addressed the issue for the last three years,” says the Flat Bush resident. Passionate about public safety, he says: “I want everyone to feel safe in their own homes and on the streets. The different ethnicities in Labour that are representative of Botany look forward to working together on the Local Board to make a big difference.” mayoral line-up Will they balance the books? ➤■ by marianne Kelly Fiscal responsibility is featuring high on the priority list of candidates who, last Saturday, took up a Howick Residents and Ratepayers Association invitation to put their case for becoming the next mayor of the SuperCity. Howick’s Fencible Lounge was packed to capacity to find out what the candidates for the Auckland Council mayoralty had to say. The line- up included Victoria Crone, Phil Goff, David Hay, John Palino, Mark Thomas and Chloe Swarbrick. The ex-Cabinet Minister for 15 years, Mr Goff said getting better value for money would be his key focus and fiscal responsibility came first. “I have brought someone in to look at all the council books and I will use that expertise to make sure the council is run well. You don’t spend money you don’t have. You have got to do more with less.” Ms Crone said it was easy to talk about efficiency, but she was the only candidate with governance experience over a billion dollars. “I have been managing billion dollar portfolios since Iwas27.Onehatofthemayoristo have governance experience over a $60 billion spend. “I have done the numbers myself. I’ve gone through the annual reports long-term and annual plans. “There isalotinthere tobehad and I know how to get it.” Mr Thomas is deputy-chair of the Orakei Local Board and said he would use council experience to get a better deal. “I’m part of a local board and councillors’ team who scrutinise this.” He said he would give local boards more say over their budgets and where the money was going. “ The boards should be able to tell us how much value they are getting and what they want to pay for things.” Mr Hay is a public service career bureaucrat, including a stint as policy analyst for Manukau City Council and at one time for The Treasury. He said he would use existing council teams to go through the books. “I know how to read balance sheets and I will look at the spending and see how much needs to come back to the local boards,” he says. “Part of my proposed re-organisation is to reduce the local boards from 21 to 15 and six small rural ones.” Mr Palino has also hired a financial expert to go through the council’s books and has already noted that 22 per cent of the city’s money is spent on the payroll. “It should be less,” he said. “We will look into efficiencies for the council, making things transparent. I am going to make a lot of these things disappear.” Meanwhile Ms Swarbrisk said the cost of the council getting things done was “ridiculous”. “ They are spending $1.2 million to get people engaged in the election. I’m running a campaign with no money and I intend to look at the way the council is spending money.” Mayoral candidates campaigning last weekend, from left, John Palino, Mark Thomas, Phil Goff, Chloe Swarbrick, David Hay and Victoria Crone. Photo supplied “I want everyone to feel safe in their own homes and on the streets.” – Gyanandra Kumar
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