A new 3.3 million cubic metre reservoir south of Dargaville is set to shift land into higher-value horticulture and firm up local water security.
Existing visa costs expected to rise, and migrants' parent's five-year visa will be so costly as to be out of reach for some, admits Immigration Minister.
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said a review of the Active Investor Plus visas for wealthy migrants will begin later this year.
The fund with no term limit has signed on 11 partners and 17 orchards.
The ETF provider has been expanding in New Zealand, where it has marked $100m in local assets.
NBR Lister-owned Gallagher jointly acquires pasture monitoring system company Farmote Systems, which went into receivership in January.
Ebitda likely to be about $6.6 million below market forecast.
‘The farmer sentiment is things are pretty tough out there,’ Waikato rural support trustee Peter Buckley said. ‘They feel as though the world is against them, in some ways.’
Although the commission has joined the chorus calling for changes to the scheme, chiefly on lifting default contribution rates.
Dunedin craft chocolate company which once raised $2m through equity crowdfunding faces 'financial uncertainty' and can trade for only 'short amount of time'.
