Hamilton City councillors have voted unanimously to keep the city's monthly newsletter, despite some raising questions about its honesty and integrity.
Councillors at a full council meeting tonight supported the chief executive's decision to scrap an article at the 11th hour because it misled the public, but have left the decision about whether to can the entire publication to the new council.
The incorrect article that was due to appear in the July edition was titled: "Claudelands, sorting fact from fiction", which listed what it said were three myths. One was "Claudelands is losing money and not meeting targets... It's costing the city mega bucks!"
Councillor Andrew King, who first alerted the chief executive to the article being a lie because the event centre was running at a significant loss, said the Official Information Act request obtained by the NZ Herald showed there was political interference.
King said the evidence showed the article had been "politically hijacked" and he was not sure how many others articles had been influenced similarly.
"The information in circulation clearly shows that there are two elected members in this room that were involved in this who had input into this article. This is and was wrong. We've ended up with politicians having basically hijacked this article."