Understand what it means to people growing a small business or have a small farm. The concept is good but the thresholds need to be higher.

Yes they would, $5m is too low, and on middle income you have to sell assets to get the cash to pay the tax. Doesn’t take much to hit $5m assets and still be earning middle income. Those are the people that will be severely hurt, and that impacts future generations. Tax the very wealthy only

Thats the problem, wealth tax will mean nothing to the super wealthy, but will hit middle class ready hard and cause them to sell assets

Confirms what we thought about the beef

Red Bull know the numbers. Lawson has speed but not results yet. Tsunoda should be worried about Hadjars potential

They are doing it for good reason. I had just thought with all the publicity around drones that the property owner needed to be asked or notified first. But the CAA regs allow a certified operator to not ask permission

We had a drone fly over our property yesterday- scared the hell out of my wife. Apparently The Lines Company have a right to fly over any property

We did actually and gave up arguing

They sent a plumber to do an electrician’s job for us, even though it was obvious what was needed

Abysmal service by Aramex in Ohakune too. We had to drop using them for business. And their insistence to charge delivery as rural when it’s not. But NZ Post service is great

Thanks for the tip, have one on the way now

That would be straight through the new ‘housing estate’ wouldn’t it? Looks like would work, and just miss my backyard!

Yep, town can be chaos when there’s a bypass, trying to think where would be sensible for a bypass

Not in my backyard (Kune bypass) I thought it should go further east

The quintessential description of the xmas to new year period experience…

Especially ones where there has been an ongoing issue