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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 30, 2016 6:27:07 GMT 12
Northern Advocate 30/12/16
OUTRAGEOUS TRIP It is so easy to spend other people's money. And taxpayers' the easiest of all, it seems. Kura Kaupapa Maori 0 Raumata took 130 students, 21 teachers, 73 caregivers to Hawaii for a "finding our roots" trip.
That's $700,000 less $37,000 raised, leaving the taxpayer contributing at $663,000. And 21 teachers for 130 students?
How about all decile one school students going on such a trip? It would need to include England, Ireland, Scotland, possibly now China, Korea, India, perhaps a dash into Denmark, definitely the Netherlands, for sure Taiwan.
It appears that large sums of money are given out by our government like confetti or a lolly scramble, and some time later, maybe, the Audit Office picks it up. Outrageous, scandalous irresponsibility. R L Whangarei
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