Barnados - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:21:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Barnados - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Former convent site to be developed for low-cost housing https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/10/17/former-convent-site-developed-low-cost-housing/ Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:50:43 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=64458 A low-cost housing sub-division is to be developed on the site of a former convent in Taita. The developer, Rudi van Baarle, is to meet Finance Minister Bill English and intends using it as an example of what experienced building companies can achieve without the added cost of "middle men". Barnardos announced more than a Read more

Former convent site to be developed for low-cost housing... Read more]]> A low-cost housing sub-division is to be developed on the site of a former convent in Taita.

The developer, Rudi van Baarle, is to meet Finance Minister Bill English and intends using it as an example of what experienced building companies can achieve without the added cost of "middle men".

Barnardos announced more than a year ago it would be selling the two-storey former convent and large grounds adjacent to St Michael's School. Continue reading

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Business New Zealand, a business lobby group, is supporting a series of discussions that aim to ensure that child poverty in New Zealand is given due consideration. Working with the Every Child Counts campaign (a group of NGO's including Plunket, Save the Children and Barnados), Business New Zealand's Phil O'Reilly says that "Businesses first and foremost Read more

Child poverty a business issue... Read more]]> Business New Zealand, a business lobby group, is supporting a series of discussions that aim to ensure that child poverty in New Zealand is given due consideration.

Working with the Every Child Counts campaign (a group of NGO's including Plunket, Save the Children and Barnados), Business New Zealand's Phil O'Reilly says that "Businesses first and foremost are interested in successful communities, and if you think about some of the most pressing issues today, they are around children."

In an article in the Dominion Post, Catherine Harris reported that the first meeting was to be at Te Papa last night.

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