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A very good dehumidifier.
You can see humidity level on the display.
You can set a fast or slow mode.
You can also set timer so it switches off after some time.
Perfect for your health as it reduces humidity in the bathroom (or room).
SIZE:… View moreA very good dehumidifier.
You can see humidity level on the display.
You can set a fast or slow mode.
You can also set timer so it switches off after some time.
Perfect for your health as it reduces humidity in the bathroom (or room).
SIZE:
length: 35cm
width: 24cm
height: 57cm
CONDITION / AGE:
We bought it brand new in March 2018.
It's in very good condition.
COMMENT:
Very very very usable. When we bought it all our problems with mold finished.
The only counterintuitive thing is the timer - I think the control light should be designed differently - but after all it does the job well.
REASON OF SALE:
We are moving overseas.
The buyer needs to pick it up as we don't organize any shipment.
A very nice orange sofa.
It converts effortlessly into a double bed.
SIZE:
H:89 x W:194 x D:100 CM
CONDITION / AGE:
We bought it brand new in March 2018.… View moreA very nice orange sofa.
It converts effortlessly into a double bed.
SIZE:
H:89 x W:194 x D:100 CM
CONDITION / AGE:
We bought it brand new in March 2018.
It's in very good condition.
COMMENT:
Honestly it’s the best sofa I had in my life.
Perfect size for 2 people as a bed and for 3 (or even 4) people when itting.
Very comfortable.
I think you can’t buy this model anymore, but originally it was priced 799.
REASON OF SALE:
We are moving overseas.
The buyer needs to pick it up as we don't organize any shipment.
Police have scaled back searches for a teenager six days after he was swept away at a rugged West Au…
And the number of them paying the full amount for running a business out of their home has plummeted - leaving hotels and motels concerned that they will have to pick up the tab. Since August, homeowners who rented out their whole property or a guest-house on websites like Airbnb or Bookabach for … View moreAnd the number of them paying the full amount for running a business out of their home has plummeted - leaving hotels and motels concerned that they will have to pick up the tab. Since August, homeowners who rented out their whole property or a guest-house on websites like Airbnb or Bookabach for more than a month each year were charged the new targeted rate, also known as a bed tax. They were also rated like a business rather than a residential property. The council said the tax would capture around 3800 out of around 8000 Airbnb properties. But as of December, the council has only been able to track down 1278 of these properties - around 33 per cent.
"The others have yet to be discovered," said Auckland Council principal advisor financial policy Aaron Matich.
"The council is still looking for online accommodation providers and when found they will be charged according to the policy." Airbnb and other websites refused to share information about hosts on privacy grounds. As a result, council officers had to scour accommodation websites for property listings. Matich conceded that the new policy had encountered some difficulties."We will look to review our implementation approach over time. At this stage, our primary approach is to identify online accommodation providers through online listings. We will be undertaking further work on this in the first half of [this] year." When the rates bills were posted, the council said more than 800 online accommodation providers were renting out their properties for more than half the year. That meant they would be charged the maximum - full business rates and the full bed tax. However, the council's updated figures show just 162 providers were renting out their homes for more than half the year. Matich said this was because the council's default position had been to charge the full rate. If it received information which showed that the hosts were renting out their properties for less than 180 days, the rate was reduced. Phil McNally, from Oneroa on Waiheke Island, was one of the ratepayers who successfully objected to his rates bill. The rates bill for his $1.8m house jumped from $4191 to $13,628 because he rented out a one-bedroom sleepout on the property. McNally complained that the guest house only made up around 10 per cent of his property and that it was rented out less than half the year. After a reassessment, the council lowered his bill to $5100."They've rushed this in at a hell of a pace and it's a bit of a mess. Tourism Industry Association chief executive Chris Roberts said it was "quite astonishing" how few Airbnb hosts were now paying full rates. "At the start of this year there were about 13,000 Airbnb listings in Auckland, and that number's probably grown. "The council certainly indicated that it terms of fairness that these listings should be counted as well in terms of the targeted rate. But only 160 - a tiny percentage - are going to be captured." Roberts said he was concerned that hotels and motels would have to make up the difference by paying more in next year's rates."They were looking to collect a set amount per year and the way of collecting that is by simply dividing up the number of targeted properties by that sum. "The more properties paying, the less each property will pay." Matich said online accommodation providers only made up a small portion of the revenue - around $870,000 or 6 per cent of the total. Despite the problems it had encountered with the bed tax, he said the council still expected to meet its budget for the 2018/19 year.
BED TAX
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• Introduced for hotels and motels in 2017 and some Airbnb and online accommodation in 2018.
• Applies to properties in popular areas (CBD and Waiheke Island) which are rented out more than 28 days a year.
• These properties must also pay a partial or full business rate, rather than residential
• The more days houses are rented for, the more they pay.
THE STATS
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• Estimated 13,000 online accommodation listings in Auckland
• 3800 liable for bed tax
• 1278 charged by the council
• 162 paying the full business rate and bed tax.
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Large 4 heat lamp bathroom extractor fan and two bathroom towel rails
A teenager who went missing off a remote Auckland beach five days ago had been collecting mussels fr…
Join Thomas & Friends for a fun day of train rides and many other Thomas-themed activities! This is a fabulous event for the little "Thomas" fans (and the family too!) Face painting, storytelling, a bouncy castle and other fun activities will be available free with your GVR Train … View moreJoin Thomas & Friends for a fun day of train rides and many other Thomas-themed activities! This is a fabulous event for the little "Thomas" fans (and the family too!) Face painting, storytelling, a bouncy castle and other fun activities will be available free with your GVR Train Ticket.
Our upcoming "Day Out With Thomas" event is on Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th January 2019, 9am – 4pm.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Has anyone seen the red lice on the beach at Davies' Bay? There are thousands of them.
Any idea what these are called?
Emergency services continue to search for a 16-year-old swept out to sea on Saturday. Leka Pasiaka …
Kids are spending too much time in front of screens and not enough time playing outside – but there …
Junior doctors will walk off the job next month for 48 hours over concerns about the pay deal being offered to them by the country's district health boards. The strike would include up to 3300 resident doctors and run for two days, beginning at 7am on January 15, the New Zealand Resident … View moreJunior doctors will walk off the job next month for 48 hours over concerns about the pay deal being offered to them by the country's district health boards. The strike would include up to 3300 resident doctors and run for two days, beginning at 7am on January 15, the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association said. The union and its doctors last went on strike in 2016 in the lead-up to successfully securing better working conditions as part of a "safer hours" campaign, RDA national president Dr Courtney Brown said. However, in the current round of negotiations, the DHBs had been trying to "claw back" some of the improved conditions the doctors won in 2016, she said. "Whilst in 2018 most health workers gained improvements to terms and conditions of employment without facing claw backs, the DHBs have taken a distinctly different approach to resident doctors," Brown said.
"It feels like they are punishing us for our successful safer hours campaign." DHB spokesman Peter Bramley said the strike action was regrettable because the DHBs had made a good offer that built on past negotiations to deal with stress and fatigue. "We're not interested in clawing back conditions as suggested but rather are looking for options that allow greater local flexibility in work patterns that support better training and improved clinical care," he said. The planned strike would hit hospitals across the country, but would not put patients' lives at risk, RDA national secretary Dr Deborah Powell said. "The resident doctors are the main labour force for doctors in the hospitals," she said. "But there will be other doctors on duty - mostly senior doctors - who will be looking after patients instead of us." She said the union was still open to negotiations and hopeful a resolution could be reached before the strike was needed. DHB spokesman Bramley said hospitals had made contingency plans to ensure emergency and essential services would be available. "The union's timing is cynical and DHBs will do what they can to try and avoid the strike, but will be ready if a negotiated solution can't be found," he said. During the 2016 industrial action, resident doctors complained they worked up to 12 consecutive days with some of the shifts being 16 hours' long, which was unsafe for patients and too tiring for them. After "quite a bitter" dispute with DHBs, the doctors managed to win improved conditions, Powell said. However, during the latest negotiations that have been going on since February, the DHBs were now trying to "claw back" some of the pay, training and reduced working hours concessions granted to doctors, she said. Powell said the DHBs' actions were disappointing because it had become widely recognised across the globe that doctors "need to look after themselves to be capable of looking after their patients". "If we're not well trained, if we're not well rested, if we don't have a good work-life balance, if we don't have a good family life - we're not the doctors we need to be to care for our patients," she said. Powell said that even after the last successful round of negotiations doctors still worked long hours of about 55-60 hours a week. "We don't mind working hard but there has got to be some fairness in this," she said. There are more than 4000 resident doctors in New Zealand, ranging from first year medical graduates to doctors with 8-10 years' experience who are about to qualify as specialists. While the RDA represents the bulk of all resident doctors, the DHBs recently concluded a pay deal with the Specialty Trainees of NZ union representing a smaller number of resident doctors. This deal included pay rises of 2.5 per cent and 3.0 per cent before December 2020 and a new roster system.
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Before 2018 ends, let me also thank all YOU good neighbours for being a part of this GR8 community. I sincerely hope and pray that YOU be Blessed with a Wonderful and Exciting New Year ahead.
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I wish YOU a :
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Joyful JANUARY
Fabulous FEBRUARY
Marvelous MARCH
Awesome … View moreBefore 2018 ends, let me also thank all YOU good neighbours for being a part of this GR8 community. I sincerely hope and pray that YOU be Blessed with a Wonderful and Exciting New Year ahead.
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I wish YOU a :
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Joyful JANUARY
Fabulous FEBRUARY
Marvelous MARCH
Awesome APRIL
Meaningful MAY
Joyous JUNE
Jubilant JULY
Amazing AUGUST
Successful SEPTEMBER
Optimistic OCTOBER
Nurturing NOVEMBER
Divine DECEMBER
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I really hope I'm the 1st person to wish YOU a Happy 12 Months of 2019.
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