Dene Mackenzie

Port of Tauranga is positioning itself to be the premium port in New Zealand broker Peter McIntyre

Transtasman casino operator SkyCity Entertainment yesterday released a confusing set of accounts for the year ended June, brought on by the need to comply with international financial reporting standards.

Two influential financial results are due out soon, with interest in Telecom high as it is expected to be the last before the company splits into two.

The future of four companies associated with St Clair businessman Stephen Chittock and his wife Janet will be decided at a meeting next Monday after a voluntary administrator was appointed yesterday.

Activity in the Otago-Southland service industry has disappointed employers representative John Scandrett, who was expecting a robust lift in activity levels.

The Privacy and Education Acts would be amended, and schools would be forced to tell the Government when 16 and 17-year-olds left during the year, Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday.

The Government might be inadvertently supplementing its funding for Radio New Zealand Concert after the broadcaster formed a charitable trust on July 26. Left-wing politicians are expressing alarm about the Government funding freeze for the public broadcaster.

Sometimes books contain too much information, hindering the plot by slowing the reader down as he or she digests the details of things such as guns, high-tech surveillance equipment and even vehicles.

Opening an office in San Francisco has paid dividends for Jade Software, which has just signed up a Silicon Valley cryogenics company, MMR Technologies, as a partner.