SHANE JONES GIVES NGĀTI WHARE $6M TO GROW MILLIONS OF NATIVE

[Kiwi Frontline]

SHANE JONES GIVES NGĀTI WHARE $6M TO GROW MILLIONS OF NATIVE TREES

An iwi's budding plant nursery in the Bay of Plenty will get $5.8 million of the Government's regional funding promises. 

Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones announced the funding boost at Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whare's Minginui Nursery on Thursday. 

The money from the Regional Development (Provincial Growth) Fund pool, will be used to expand the nursery by 2021 so it can grow one million trees a year, most of them native. 
 
Ngāti Whare chairman Bronco Carson said the nursery would hire another 81 employees to take its total staff count to 90......

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[second-class-citizen]

I wonder if these extra's employed can claim on their CV's they are experienced at planting certain types of "crops" and probably don't really want the work. There's bound to be some BS excuse why they can't find the required extra workers or there's a rort in the making.