A keen interest in genealogy among descendants of William Driver and Mary Ann Challis resulted in 110 of them getting together in Dunedin at the weekend, 148 years after the couple stepped off the boat in Port Chalmers.
Funding for a $16 million roading realignment, essential for the new stadium in Dunedin, was confirmed yesterday, despite the city council being warned relying on government help to fund the realignment was more risky than it had ever been.
The rates increase for Dunedin stood at 7.7% after the city council's latest budget meeting, but the final figure hangs on Monday's stadium decision.
A resource consent decision to allow a restaurant, cafe and bar in the former Roslyn fire station is subject to an appeal to the Environment Court.
A land Valuation Tribunal in Dunedin yesterday reserved a decision on a case brought by Minaret Station.
Stall spaces for the Thieves Alley market in Dunedin sold out a month before the event.
Dunedin city councillors voted yesterday to put off a decision on a targeted rate to pay for economic development in the city until next year.
There has been an exponential increase in the use of irony in recent times, as people look for a defence against random tragedy and suffering in a world where traditional beliefs have fallen by the wayside.
The spectre of the stadium was raised by Cr Teresa Stevenson during discussion on a proposal to cut $10 million from spending on council housing, but her argument was labelled mischievous, deliberately misleading and untruthful.
The Dunedin City Council's $72 million Waipori fund will provide the necessary cash flow to the council for the next financial year, but councillors were warned they would be unable to ask for an increase in returns in the future.
A proposed sharp rise in the council's building consent fees was blamed on the Government yesterday, but the cost of the increase passed on to consent applicants.
The possibility of a council-built 550 to 800-seat theatre in Dunedin will be the subject of one more report, after the project just managed to stay on the agenda.
Dunedin ratepayers are facing a 6.7% rates rise in the next financial year, and some significant fee increases, as the city heads towards a 69% jump in the next 10 years.
A proposal to cut $1 million in the next financial year from the Dunedin City Council's social housing budget - effectively stopping a programme to build five to seven units for the year - has been extended until 2019.
The Dunedin City Council appears to have no intention of sending in a razor gang to cut council spending in the face of worldwide recession.
Dunedin city councillors and staff were left pondering an economic conundrum yesterday, after a briefing on the downturn in the economy.
Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran wants a role in the debate on social housing in Dunedin, something she says is an important issue in her electorate.
Tourism Dunedin may struggle to get a $484,000 increase in its budget for the next financial year, after failing to convince Dunedin City Council staff it was necessary.
A decision by the European Union to return to subsidising its dairy farmers with export refunds for butter, cheese, and milk powder payments has disappointed both farming bodies and the Government, and brought warnings it could exacerbate the worldwide recession.
Dunedin City Council staff have given the city's elected representatives a clear message there is no more money to be squeezed from the council's group of companies.
