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Private Investigators tackle Taggers in Manukau
Monday, 22 September 2008, 3:47 pm | Dick Quax
Manukau City Portfolio Leader for Community Safety Cr Dick Quax is praising the private investigators that the Council contracts to deal with graffiti vandalism in the city. More >>
Private Security Proposed for Manukau City
Monday, 7 July 2008, 11:25 am | Dick Quax
Private security guards could patrol the streets and town centres of Manukau if a proposal floated by Community Safety portfolio leader Councillor Dick Quax gets the green light. More >>
Dick Quax shocked at level of violence
Monday, 9 June 2008, 2:49 pm | Dick Quax
Manukau City Council Portfolio Leader for Community Safety, Dick Quax is urging members of the public to help the police in their hunt for those who robbed and gunned down the owner of the Riverton Liquor shop in Manurewa. More >>
Dick Quax disappointed with wastewater charges
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 5:23 pm | Dick Quax
Cr Dick Quax says that he is disappointed at the outcome of the Manukau City Council decision last night to continue with fixed wastewater charges for residential users. More >>
Manukau Not Listening
Friday, 16 May 2008, 11:53 am | Dick Quax
“People are calling but the Manukau City Council has taken the phone off the hook”. This is how Pakuranga councillor Dick Quax describes the Council attitude towards its rejection of a volumetric component to its unpopular fixed wastewater charges. More >>
Manukau Rejects Regional Fuel Tax
Sunday, 27 April 2008, 11:44 am | Dick Quax
Manukau Councillor Dick Quax welcomes the rejection by the Manukau City Council of the five cents a litre regional fuel tax as proposed in the Auckland Regional Council’s Draft Annual Plan. More >>
Pakuranga Councillor supports immigrant community
Friday, 4 April 2008, 10:15 am | Dick Quax
Pakuranga Councillor Dick Quax has been quick to jump to the defence of Manukau’s large immigrant population following the attack on the Asian community by New Zealand First deputy leader, Peter Brown. More >>
Rates Inquiry Recommendations Applauded
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 11:04 am | Dick Quax
Councillor Dick Quax, candidate for Mayor of Manukau City, said that almost all of the Recommendations of the Rates Inquiry would be implemented in Manukau if he and his Peoples Choice team won election next month. However the Rates Inquiry could ... More >>
James Brown kicked off Council Committee
Friday, 17 August 2007, 9:50 am | Dick Quax
Manukau Mayoral candidate Councillor Dick Quax said councillors had to make a very difficult decision at an extraordinary meeting of the Manukau City Council last night to withdraw the appointment of James Brown to the Treaty of Waitangi Committee. More >>
Government must provide more police for Manukau
Friday, 3 August 2007, 9:32 am | Dick Quax
Manukau mayoral candidate Councillor Dick Quax says that he has become concerned that the Manukau City Council is increasingly being called on to fund security guards around the city. More >>
Dick Quax welcomes Royal Commission of Inquiry
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 4:07 pm | Dick Quax
Mayoral candidate Dick Quax welcomes the announcement that a Royal Commission of Inquiry will be held in to how Auckland’s governance structure can be strengthened. More >>
Manukau Water Bullies Pensioner -- Dick Quax
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 5:33 pm | Dick Quax
An elderly Pakuranga widow living alone whose average quarterly water bill has never exceeded $35 has been presented with a bill from Manukau Water for $1981. More >>
Len Brown must answer questions about gang
Monday, 12 March 2007, 12:28 am | Dick Quax
The revelation in the Herald on Sunday that a Manukau City Council hall was being used the headquarters of a violent youth gang in Otara leaves the chairman of a government funded Otara youth action group and mayoral aspirant, Len Brown facing some embarrassing ... More >>
Pub and Casino Not Needed
Monday, 24 July 2006, 5:06 pm | Dick Quax
The decision of the Papatoetoe Community Board to support a proposal from the Papatoetoe Licensing Trust to lease the historic Papatoetoe Council Chambers so that it can be converted into a pub and casino has been described by Councillor Dick Quax a “appalling”. More >>
Greens Mistaken about Housing Prices
Monday, 19 June 2006, 2:39 pm | Dick Quax
New Green Party co-leader Dr Russell Norman is engaging in voodoo economics by claiming it is foreigners buying up New Zealand properties that are driving up housing prices. More >>
Bigger Backyards Mean Leaner, Fitter Kids
Friday, 16 June 2006, 11:10 am | Dick Quax
Manukau City Councillor Dick Quax an out spoken critic of so called “smart growth” points to preliminary data from the Flinders University Achieving a Healthy Home Environment study which surveyed the homes and lifestyles of 280 families in the ... More >>
Councillor Condemns Graffiti Mural in Manukau
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 9:49 am | Dick Quax
Manukau City Councillor Dick Quax is aghast that the TelstraClear Pacific is promoting a massive graffiti mural. More >>
Manukau Rail Link to Cost $70 million
Friday, 28 April 2006, 2:18 pm | Dick Quax
A recommendation to drop any reference to the Manukau Rail Link in Manukau City Council's submission to the Auckland Regional Council Draft Long Term Community Plan by Cr Dick Quax was defeated at last night's Council meeting. More >>
Council Breaches Human Rights
Friday, 31 March 2006, 9:59 am | Dick Quax
Clevedon-Botany Councillor Dick Quax predicts that the decision taken by Manukau City Council to block 13,500 Maori who are on the General Roll from taking any part in the election for Taura Here (urban Maori) for the Council's Treaty of Waitangi ... More >>
Sir Barry Curtis call for RGS Review Endorsed.
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 4:07 pm | Dick Quax
Cr Dick Quax welcomes the call by Manukau mayor Sir Barry Curtis to review the Auckland Regional Growth Strategy. More >>
