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| Big guns join battle to save New Chums beach |
| The Director-General of Conservation, the Historic Places Trust and Labour leader Phil Goff have joined a chorus of opposition against rich-listers building houses on an untouched Coromandel beach.Department of Conservation head... |
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Published: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| The woman in the bubble |
| From her leafy, 11th-floor rooftop terrace at the headquarters of Soho China, billionaire Zhang Xin scans the relentlessly expanding Beijing skyline she helped create. Zhang's avant-garde buildings - some sleek as chopsticks, others... |
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Published: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Council splurges on houses |
| North Shore City Council has paid more than $1 million above valuation for a beachfront Mairangi Bay home - part of a $25 million spending spree landbanking prime property for parkland.Nine properties, most near the sea, have... |
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Published: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Auckland heads for $2m suburb |
| The million-dollar suburb is now old hat in Auckland with an "average" home in five or six areas of the city above the seven-figure mark.After the residential property boom that saw prices double in five years across the city,... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| Hotel 'won't be a burden on taxpayers' |
| Christchurch developer Dave Henderson says his Hotel So will not cause the taxpayer financial agony.Henderson, with companies in receivership after trouble at the funky Cashel Street hotel, borrowed more than $20 million from... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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| $219,000 in interest daily for bailout |
| The Government will pay more than $200,000 in daily interest on this week's $1.8 billion payout to South Canterbury Finance investors, but has had plenty of time to buttress its finances against the impact.South Canterbury is... |
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Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:30 a.m. |
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