The Crown Forestry Rental Trust has released its accounts to 31 March 2015. These detail that the Trust had income of circa $12 million for the year, against expenses of $18.4 million – meaning it made a loss of $6.4 million. (A loss is expected as it is in
Day: September 18, 2015
On Tuesday the first reading of the Māori Purposes Bill 2015 was completed in parliament and referred to the Māori Affairs Select Committee. This bill amends the Māori Purposes Act 1991, which governs the Wi Pere Trust and Māori Trust Boards. The main purposes of the bill are to (a)
This week the Māori Education Trust reported to the Māori Affairs Select Committee on its operations. The session was closed and official documents are unavailable. However the meeting was likely to concern the financial and educational performance of the Trust, given: the 2013 financial accounts were not delivered to Audit
On Tuesday the Productivity Commission released a report entitled, More Effective Social Services.[1] (Note this is a final report, prepared after consideration of submissions received on an earlier draft which was released in May. We reviewed the draft report in Pānui 14/2015.) This colossal 364-page report is a study of
Last Friday the Waitangi Tribunal released its report on The Ngāpuhi Mandate Inquiry.[1] This report assesses whether the Crown has breached the Treaty of Waitangi by recognising the mandate of Tūhoronuku Independent Mandate Authority (Tūhoronuku) to settle all of the historic Treaty of Waitangi claims of Ngāpuhi. The report responds