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Govt blocks land sale for Waihi tailings expansion
Law & Regulation

Govt blocks land sale for Waihi tailings expansion

By Gavin Evans May 3 (BusinessDesk) - Miner OceanaGold has had its bid to buy land for a new tailings dam near its Waihi mine turned down by the government. The ASX-listed firm, New Zealand’s biggest gold miner, is mostly owned by US and UK investors and needed Overseas Inv...

Gavin Evans 03 May 2019
UPDATE: ANZ warns farmers RBNZ intervention may mean higher borrowing costs
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UPDATE: ANZ warns farmers RBNZ intervention may mean higher borrowing costs

(Updates with comment from Mark Hiddleston from 12th par) By Jenny Ruth May 3 (BusinessDesk) - ANZ Bank has warned its farming customers they face higher borrowing costs almost immediately due to Reserve Bank intervention, even though wholesale interest rates have been fall...

Jenny Ruth 03 May 2019
CORRECT: Overseas buyers missing in action, building consents dip in March
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CORRECT: Overseas buyers missing in action, building consents dip in March

(Fixes incorrect percentage change for actual building consents in 10th paragraph) By Rebecca Howard May 2 (BusinessDesk) - Overseas buyer activity fell off a cliff in the first quarter of the year after restrictions to bar foreigners from snapping up existing homes took ho...

Rebecca Howard 02 May 2019
Vodafone fined $350,000 for billing former customers
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Vodafone fined $350,000 for billing former customers

By Paul McBeth May 1 (BusinessDesk) - Vodafone New Zealand has been fined $350,000 for charging more than 29,000 customers after the end date of cancelled contracts with the country's biggest mobile carrier.  The telco was today sentenced in the Auckland District Court afte...

Paul McBeth 01 May 2019


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With a professional career spanning New Zealand, Singapore, and London, Victoria Young has been with BusinessDesk since 2019, initially as a senior reporter before taking on the role of investigations editor in 2022, then editor in 2024. 
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