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Police can advise that a planned training exercise at Mānawa Bay, near Auckland Airport is now under way.
The public are reminded that they may see tactical Police staff and other emergency services outside the centre.
There is no cause for alarm.
This exercise is taking place outside of Mānawa Bay’s operating hours.
Mānawa Bay and its car park are closed to the general public.
Police will issue a further advisory once the exercise is completed.
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Jarred Williamson/NZ Police
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Police were called to an address on Campbell Street in Feilding at around 12.50pm today, after a person was found deceased at the property.
The death is being treated as unexplained at this time.
A scene guard has been put in place overnight and a scene examination will take place tomorrow.
We know the police presence will be unsettling for Campbell Street residents, however we want to reassure them there is no cause for alarm.
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Headline: AA Traveller to stop printing free maps and guides
After more than 90 years of producing free travel guides and printed maps for Members, the AA has made the tough decision to stop doing so.
The 2023 season travel guides and current suite of maps will be the last printed by AA Traveller.
With increasing obstacles, including soaring paper and distribution costs, combined with declining demand for paper-based maps and guides, the hard call had to be made.
AA Traveller’s wide range of travel Member Benefits – including discounts on Hertz and GO Rentals, accommodation, campervan hire, tours, Great Journeys NZ Trains and Interislander – will still be available to Members.
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“We have been waiting for the release of the report and recommendations for some time, so it’s great that schools have some certainty at last. It’s good to see the concerns of many schools reflected in the report.
“We are pleased that a Functioning Chief Executive (FCE) unit is being set up to prioritise school property – there is a tremendous amount of catching up to do and hopefully the FCE will mean this will happen at pace.”
However, principals were concerned about the Government’s intention to consider options for a new model that separated school property policy from operational delivery.
“Property functions must have a clear and close connection and integration with other planning and resourcing decisions affecting schools. This is crucial – the further away from the public service an entity becomes, and the more that it focuses on commercial efficiencies, the higher the risk that it misses the required integration with other planning and resourcing affecting schools. A good example of this is roll growth as a result of immigration.”
Kate Gainsford urged the Minister of Education to take into account principals’ and school boards’ knowledge and understanding of the complexity of schools’ needs, in designing a new model for school property.
“This will ensure that the new entity is truly responsive to schools’ needs, and can provide property solutions that will meet those needs. Property functions need to reflect the changing demands of what education looks like.
“For instance, while principals are happy with simplified and streamlined processes and buildings, school facilities cover a more complex set of needs than simple, modular relocatable units can generally meet on their own. These include: specialist teaching spaces, especially for technology; safe management of the movement of large numbers of people; air quality; professional workspaces; extra-curricular activities; and community expectations around schools as a hub for their communities.”
Kate Gainsford said the Secondary Principals’ Council looked forward to working with the Government on the implementation of the review recommendations. “I think we all agree that school property is a valuable public asset and should be well managed, planned for and maintained by the public service for the public good.”
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The request for information (RFI) closed on 28 February. We received 85 submissions.
Information from the RFI process will help us understand what would make potential partnerships viable, and the conditions under which offers might be made.
Officials from across the Ministry for Primary Industries, the Ministry for the Environment, the Department of Conservation, and Land Information New Zealand will analyse the information and provide advice to ministers.
Ministers will then decide what opportunities there are and what next steps will be and will make public announcements later this year.
See the request for information documents
The Government wants to explore partnership opportunities to afforest (plant native or exotic trees) or promote native forest regeneration on Crown-owned land (excluding National Parks) that has low farming value and low conservation value.
This will:
Government to partner with private sector to plant trees on low-value Crown land – Beehive
We opened this Request for Information (RFI) to gauge interest in the proposal and understand what would make afforesting Crown-owned land an attractive and viable opportunity.
We asked to hear your views on:
Overview: Partnering to plant trees on Crown-owned land [PDF, 609 KB]
Questions and answers about partnering to plant trees on Crown-owned land [PDF, 320 KB]
Indicative land map (high resolution) [PDF, 1.2 MB]
Publicly available information about Crown-owned land [PDF, 302 KB]
Afforestation on Crown-owned land – Cabinet paper [PDF, 1.1 MB]
We’ll advise interested parties of next steps in 2025.
We intend to progress with any partnership opportunities as soon as practicable. Your responses will help shape the Government’s decisions on possible opportunities and decide next steps as well as informing the commercial strategy moving forwards.
Where partnerships can be progressed under current law they will be taken forward as soon as practicable. In these circumstances, we anticipate that a second round of commercial negotiations on a site-by-site basis with interested parties may take place in 2025.
Where partners are looking for the Government to make changes to existing policy to support partnerships – such as changes to law – this will be subject to further advice from officials and decision-making by Cabinet in 2025. Any proposed changes to legislation would likely be advanced though usual parliamentary processes, including public consultation.
Your response will be used by the Ministry for Primary Industries, Land Information New Zealand, Department of Conservation, and the Ministry for the Environment for their internal purposes and in advising ministers.
Note that all, part, or a summary of your response to the request for information may be published on this website.
People can also ask for copies of responses under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the response available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.
If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your response or contact us, and we will take this into account when deciding whether to release the information. Reasons may include that your response discloses information that would unreasonably prejudice your commercial position or personal information. Any decision we make to withhold information can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.
All information provided will be held by the relevant Government agency in accordance with the Privacy Act.
This process is not in any way binding, nor is it:
Participating in this process does not create a contract or any other legal relationship between you and the Crown. There is no obligation on the Crown to accept or advance your response.
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