Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 3, 2017 18:32:40 GMT 12
LEGAL BILL FOR MAORI BOARD V AUCKLAND COUNCIL NEARLY $300,000
NZ First is warning rate and taxpayers that huge legal bills will be coming their way given National’s racially based changes to the Resource Management Act.
“Lawyers are the only winners from National’s racially divisive RMA changes that will create a separate planning system,” says New Zealand First and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters.
“While Auckland Council’s so-called Independent Maori Statutory Board lost an appeal against Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan, it still left ratepayers nursing a $273,431 legal bill.
“And given Housing NZ was involved taxpayers footed another $19,204 taking the grand total to a staggering $292,635. This racially motivated politically correct poppycock has ripped almost $300,000 out of the pockets of hard working tax and ratepayers and for what?.
“These legal shenanigans all stem from a long list of sites supposedly of significance to Maori. So significant, they reportedly included a rubbish dump, an industrial site and a subdivision......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1705/S00045/nearly-300000-legal-bill-maori-board-v-auckland-council.htm
NZ First is warning rate and taxpayers that huge legal bills will be coming their way given National’s racially based changes to the Resource Management Act.
“Lawyers are the only winners from National’s racially divisive RMA changes that will create a separate planning system,” says New Zealand First and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters.
“While Auckland Council’s so-called Independent Maori Statutory Board lost an appeal against Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan, it still left ratepayers nursing a $273,431 legal bill.
“And given Housing NZ was involved taxpayers footed another $19,204 taking the grand total to a staggering $292,635. This racially motivated politically correct poppycock has ripped almost $300,000 out of the pockets of hard working tax and ratepayers and for what?.
“These legal shenanigans all stem from a long list of sites supposedly of significance to Maori. So significant, they reportedly included a rubbish dump, an industrial site and a subdivision......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1705/S00045/nearly-300000-legal-bill-maori-board-v-auckland-council.htm
