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| Office block owners threaten market flood |
| Wellington office block owners want help to convert their buildings into rental apartments, threatening to flood a market in which there are already hundreds of vacant flats. |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:20 a.m. |
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| Bollard tells of rush on $100 bills |
| The Reserve Bank had to raid its vaults to meet a sudden demand for $100 bills during the economic meltdown as savers pulled money out of banks to stuff under the mattress for safe keeping, Governor Alan Bollard says. |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:20 a.m. |
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| Farming spokesman breaches consents |
| He has publicly rejected the "nasty farmer" stereotype – but Federated Farmers spokesman John Barrow has also breached resource consents on multiple occasions at his own farm. |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:20 a.m. |
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| Concern over Minister and Crafar farm sale |
| Opponents of a planned sale of 16 dairy farms to a Chinese company are calling for Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson to stand aside from deciding the bid after he said concerns about foreign ownership were often driven by racism. |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:20 a.m. |
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| Crisis a headache for Reserve Bank governor |
| The global economic crisis proved a literal headache for Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard, who for the first time suffered debilitating migraines that sent him to bed for days on end. |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:20 a.m. |
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| Related party loans helped sink SCF |
| Prime Minister John Key was unusually direct this week when he turned to the television camera for the 90-second sound bite and blamed Allan Hubbard and the former management of the iconic lender South Canterbury Finance for its downfall. |
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Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:15 p.m. |
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