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Tauhei Notts (1,196) Says:
February 2nd, 2013 at 4:30 pm
The person who has the power to hire and fire trustees effectively controls that inter vivos trust. If Owen Glenn did not attend to that simple matter at the time the deed of trust was prepared I will be astounded. This is very basic trust law.
Just as the person with the power to hire and fire Television New Zealand directors effectively controls that organisation

Hakas are fucking cringeworthy and embarrassing. I saw a load of grossly drunken kiwis doing one in London and I was fucking ashamed…

Why we think the world wants to see us poking our tongues out and going all googly eyed is beyond me…

Yes – I don’t believe that the examples you mentioned actually happen.

Your paranoia is astonishing.

Thankfully with the brilliantly well thought-out anti smacking bill in place, this is all a thing of the past.
After all, now before dad takes a baseball bat to his son, and beats him within an inch of his life, he’ll obviously stop and think; ” oops wait…that’s illegal…can’t do that anymore”.

No sir, that $80 million would clearly be wasted money.

It’s a relief to know John Key didn’t stomp all over the opinion of 90% of the population for nothing.

They do not highlight the positive, ever, and hold it up as a shining light as an example to follow, they highlight the negative and present it as the norm.

And when they do encounter men and women living together well and in harmony – they mock them

Stupidity is non-denominational and Andrei has been peddling his particular brand for years.

[Andrei,] Always good to get the Christian perspective on these sorts of issues

An identical comment from someone of an unknown religious belief would not have elicited that sneering preamble. Why is it necessary to mock?

Still you never know, at least he’s doing it. If it’s wisely invested into, say, agricultural technical courses, more schools like Dilworth etc then all good.

Ban the haka? Are you serious?

So by that logic the US, worried at present about gun deaths, should presumably ban the hundreds of Civil War re-enactment groups that are popular pastimes, particularly in the south?

Go to YouTube and search “haka flashmob”. You’ll find several videos showing groups of presumably expat NZers assmbling, occasionally in their hundreds and certainly in numbers of a dozen or more, to perform the haka everywhere from in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to a suburban Brisbane mall. In one you can see a policeman in full uniform, with a gun on his hip, join in. It’s superb and, for an expat, very moving.

And not one of those performances has ended in violence. How can this be?!

I wonder if Owen’s going to give the boys a good britches-down thrashing, at some point in the proceedings?

Maybe they should start an ipredict stock on that.

But what hes doing at the moment is a total waste – and I think the trustees have become aware of that and are a little worried that they might be held liable for wasting the money – which the very well might be.

the proposals listed are wat they want you to think and approve of.

dad says to kid Who are you talking to on facebook etc,I don’t approve of that guy etc.You’re spending too much time on playstation etc

Kid complains and the stasi come knocking. Don’t believe it happens?

Wake up.

Lol “Family violence” is not a problem to be fixed by throwing money at it, only silly liberals could believe that

Andrei

Always good to get the Christian perspective on these sorts of issues, but I didn’t notice any suggestion that Glenn was intending to “throw money” at the issue, or indeed how he was proposing that the grant be spent.

Presumably you have some greater insight into this so perhaps you could share with us precisely what Glenn is intending to do and why that will fail to achieve anything at all.