Posts by Ian Dalziel
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...and then there's this...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11836313A grand mansion of almost hotel-like proportions is rising on Auckland's northern outskirts in job so big that a commercial-grade tower crane is swinging above the site.
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Moving 1000 social housing renters into home ownership could produce a net fiscal saving of $11.1 million over 15 years, BERL's data shows.
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Hard News: Behind those Herald…, in reply to Russell Brown,
By, er, Anne Gibson.
and there's this story from April 3
How to get a $1.7m Auckland property portfolio in 4 years
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11831331in which "(Phil) Twyford praised the Herald for its property coverage because he said it showed what was really going on and had resulted in people calling for an end to speculation and property flippping."
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Hard News: Behind those Herald…, in reply to Paul Campbell,
a plague upon their houses … perhaps we need some Aussie termites
or termagents - Pauline Hanson seems like a one-woman plague...
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Meanwhile in Chchch $550,000 apparently becomes the new 'affordable' housing price...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/91373465/christchurch-city-council-wants-ngai-tahu-homes-to-be-genuinely-affordable -
Hard News: Cannabis: The Experiment is Real, in reply to Alfie,
What a dick!
I like the way you've incorporated that into the link url
http://www.stuff.co.nz//91314039/jon-morgan-is-a-dick
rather then the more prosaic
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/opinion/91314039/jon-morgan-were-losing-our-judgment-over-cannabis<goes away briefly, furious key pecking is heard>
Oh, I see, you can type anything after the story number - I have a vague recollection of someone pointing this out before (perhaps you Alfie) - now I see what fun could be had by an angry aggregator with an agenda.... hmmmm
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By way of mitigation, if Jon has smoked cannabis infused with pesticides that may go some way towards explaining the logic behind this prattle.
N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dichloride!!
Paraquat!}}
Was used to poison marijuana crops [[http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/19/opinion/poisoning-pot-and-people.html|back in the '70s and early '80s in the US...
and later
I think it is still being used in NZ - and have since the '60s)
and he says he was a user over 30 years ago....
....them chickens can take a long tiiime to come home a-roosting
just sayinPS more info:
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=000192 -
Hard News: Behind those Herald…, in reply to Moz,
probably Aranui, maybe Shirley.
Hmmm - well I guess there is the Acheson Street shops a coupla blocks away from me in Shirley - basically a rollerdoor display area, in a state house area - most of which never roll up - there's even a gone-out-of-business 'Dress for Even Less', which says a lot!
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On Stuff today:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/91268790/On-the-ladder-At-19-Travis-Parry-has-just-bought-his-first-home
The secret is drainlaying...
...and being in Palmerston North! -
Wobbles ahead?
Ok so that'll work for one generation...
....what'll this crop of 'giftees' leave their kids?and then probably all the dead baby boomers' personal credit card debt will skew the system (not everybody's parents are rich or living within their means)...