Recent changes to how Accident Compensation Corporation claims are being dealt with and ways to improve them will be discussed at a public meeting in Kamo this morning.
Meeting organiser, ACC advocate Jeanette Brock has urged as many people to turn up and offer their ideas on how ACC could better handle claims in future.
A major change in the last couple of weeks was a change in ownership of ACC's in-house disputes resolution services for claimants, FairWay Resolution, to a trust which now owns shares in the entity and the beneficiaries are its employees.
Today's meeting starts at 10am at the Kamo Club and is expected to last about one hour.
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NZ Transport Agency is replacing the single-lane Taipa Bridge on State Highway 10. The agency is keen to hear public feedback and is inviting those who want to find out more to attend a third public information day. It is at Taipa Bay Resort today ((22 Taipa Point Rd) on Saturday, July 22) frommidday until 4pm. It is an opportunity to meet the team behind the project and see how the designs are progressing.
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Northland's community owned fine art print studio, Te Kowhai Print Trust will showcase a selection of prints from its public collection archive.
The works have all been donated to TKPT over the last 35 years by artists who support the trust or have created or tutored at the facility. Artists' work on display include Stanley Palmer, Bill Parkes, Jo Hardy, Faith McManus, Chris Wilkie, Mariette Van Zuydam, Jacob Rolfe and others.
The Yvonne Rust Gallery, The Quarry Arts Centre, July 28-August 8.
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The proposed trial of a Northland man whose ute bowled three lamp posts in a serious crash at the Kerikeri crossroads has been set down for July next year. His case was called during callovers in the High Court at Whangarei yesterday and was adjourned to a case review on September 7 this year. The 37-year-old Kerikeri man was driving north on State Highway 10 on January 6 when police say he pulled off the left of the highway and hit three lamp posts. The ute rolled and came to rest on its side against the third, just before the SH10/Kerikeri Rd roundabout. Three children restrained in the back seat suffered bumps and bruises. A female front-seat passenger was knocked unconscious and had to be cut from the wreckage. As well as attempted murder, the driver faces a charge of breach of protection order.
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The highway through Dome Valley is to be made wider and have flexible safety barriers installed.
NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) will begin improvements on State Highway 1 next year. Work will include widening the centre line and road shoulders and installing flexible safety barriers. The 15km section between Wellsford and Warkworth has steep slopes, unexpected corners and poor visibility.
Seventeen people have died and another 42 have been seriously injured in the Dome Valley between 2005 and 2016. More than 10,000 vehicles travel through the Dome Valley every day.
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Whangarei engineering apprentice Ryan Nethercott is $3000 better off as the result of winning a scholarship from Industry Training Organisation (ITO) Competenz to further his study. Mr Nethercott, an apprentice at Northern Steel Products Limited, won a Maori category scholarship to further his study towards a New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering. He was awarded his scholarship last week at a formal presentation at Northern Steel Products Limited.
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A stolen vehicle has been recovered after police received reports it was heading in to Whangarei from Oakura.Police said they received the call about the car at 9.25am yesterday. Police units were sent to the area and by 9.44am police were following the vehicle on Vinegar Hill Rd. When police signalled for the vehicle to pull over, it stopped.
One man was arrested and the car was towed away for forensic examination.
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A Northland man has been awarded with a Dutch War medal from the Dutch War Office.
Winston Peters presented the mobilisation medal to Joop Mijnders of Whatitiri.
Mr Mijnders, a World War II veteran, was born and raised in Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the Dutch East Arm on December 11, 1941 - four days after the Japanese invaded.
He was made prisoner of war shortly afterwards and in 1942 he was transported in the hold of a ship, with standing or squatting room only, to a base camp in Singapore and from there transferred to the Burma railroad.
He was freed from camp in August 1945.
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