Rating quandary ‘difficult’

RESIDENTS, businesses and irrigated farmers will pay more while dryland farmers will have rates cut under a move that divided councillors during a spirited debate at this week’s monthly meeting of council. While acknowledging that any decision on which sectors pay how much of the rate burden was a “lose/lose situation”, councillors were unanimous that […]

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  • Ex-cop to stand trial

    Ex-cop to stand trial

    A FORMER police officer alleged to have been caught with almost 100 firearms and “very significant” quantities of explosives and precursor chemicals at his Red…