Poor example
YOUR OLD mate hears Horizons Regional Council is causing consternation in more than the rural sector with parts of its controversial One Plan.
THE HOUND hears that the ‘Green Rig’ – a mobile environmental display owned by Horizons Regional Council – has been sold to Auckland Council.
The rig cost $1.2 million, but was sold for $185,000. Farmers hated it for the perceived anti-farming messages it presented. Your old mate reckons that as few farmers inhabit Auckland, maybe the Queen St farmers will be targets for an anti-farming message from the new owners. Meanwhile the $1.01 MILLION lost by Horizons on this fantasy trip is yet another cost to struggling rural ratepayers.
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