There are 3 things to note:

1. While the KCDC (and all other councils) have input into the process, the base salaries and allowances are set by the Remuneration Authority — see here
2. For those who take the job seriously (a few don’t), the roles involve a significant number of hours — in our estimation about 25 hours a week for councillors and 15 for community board members.  Hard workers can spend even more than that. The Mayor is a full time job.
3. Senior staffers get a lot more for the hours they spend than the mayor and councillors do.

A watercolour, now in the Te Papa Tongarewa collection.

Rest Room if you’re American, Wash Room if you’re Canadian.  Congratulations to all involved in this project!

Kapiti Historical Society

Tuesday 30 July at 7.30 pm

• Kapiti Uniting Church Meeting Room (Enter via the main church door)
• 10 Weka Road, Raumati Beach
• Gold coin koha, thanks.

 Larry Keim on

The Land They Adored, Marines Heal their Wounds in Hospitable New Zealand 1942-43

The pic above sent by a reader gives an interpretation we didn’t think of…

As can be seen on the right, these are quite extensive in places, and in due course will obscure views of the hills.  However, the plantings offset the tree-fellings by property developers and are needed.

Just about every month sees a film festival in Wellington — and in Otaki there is the annual Mäori and Ingenious People’s Film Festival — but the WIFF is the biggie.

This year there are 157 movies (or in a few cases collections of short films) and, needless to say, cover a big range of subjects, settings (including of course, New Zealand) and treatments: pretty much something for everyone.  They include re-released and recut films: classics such as Apocalypse Now and Koyaanisqatsi. and ones which few will have heard of like Dagerréotypes and Jacquot de Nantes.  This year has the longest movie the festival has ever played: La Flor which clocks up 813 minutes!  Unsurprisingly, it screens in 3 parts beginning on Saturday.

For Waikanae people, getting to the cinemas involves about 1 hr 20 min of travelling via train and bus for the downtown venues, and longer than that to the suburban venues (Brooklyn and Miramar); but you get to see the movie on a big screen and quite likely one you won’t get to see that way again.

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