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    I suppose its fairly close to Ohakea International Airport.
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    Levin - retirement village. My Fossils are there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skunk
    Levin - retirement village. My Fossils are there.
    Yeah, there are plenty of old people, but hey, it makes the rest of us look young!

    ajturbo, we go to Himatangi often to get firewood from a friend's parents forestry block. Nice day out!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skunk
    Levin - retirement village. My Fossils are there.
    The whole town is now known as Harvey's Holding Paddock, I believe.
    (Harvey's is the local funeral directors)
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Harvey-Bowler to be precise - how appropriate!

    Drove to the army base at Linton for a job interview this morning and was paranoid about doing more than 100kph all the way there. Same on the way back, but noticed at least two mufti cop cars sitting in amongst the traffic heading north around Shannon. One red Commodore (I think) and one silvery-gold one. Both had uniformed officers in them and the red one was sitting right on the tail of the car in front - wonder if he was trying to get the driver to speed up so he could make his quota?
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    Almost as good as marlborough. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3738413a10,00.html

    Quote Originally Posted by www.stuff.co.nz
    A third police memorandum obtained by the Manawatu Standard flies in the face of Government denials that police are working to a traffic ticket quota - at the expense of fighting other crime.

    Police in the Marlborough district were last month instructed their "first priority" was to issue a minimum of two traffic tickets each shift.

    The June 6 memo, written by acting Area Commander Tony Sampson warned: "Failure to comply with this directive will be considered a performance issue.

    "All supervisors are directed - not asked - directed to ensure that this occurs. This is quite simply what will happen - no excuses.

    "This is the District Commander's (Grant O'Fee) priority - everything else is secondary."

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    It seems that cops have finally had enough. These leaks have got to be coming from the troops.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beemer
    Harvey-Bowler to be precise - how appropriate!
    When I lived in Levin a 'few' years ago, the War Vet's Home had that title.
    And I assume the Bowler is Milton? He worked for Harvey's back then. Thought he'd have used their services by now?
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    I hate th attitude the cops have hear. I am sure its not their fault though, what a crap position to be in.

    Sucks for them really.
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    Todays leaked memo comes back to the way funding is delivered, as described in other threads. The boss in Marlborough is kicking butt because the end of the financial year is approaching, (the memo was from early June) and he is faced with having to explain why his area has under-delivered on contracted traffic enforcement hours. (thats what I'd suggest is the case anyway)

    Undoubtedly the memos are being leaked by disgruntled cops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beemer
    Harvey-Bowler to be precise - how appropriate!

    Both had uniformed officers in them and the red one was sitting right on the tail of the car in front - wonder if he was trying to get the driver to speed up so he could make his quota?
    Nah, probably like me when I forget my specs, got to get up close to get his number for qvr.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudchucka
    he is faced with having to explain why his area has under-delivered on contracted traffic enforcement hours. (thats what I'd suggest is the case anyway)

    Undoubtedly the memos are being leaked by disgruntled cops.
    Up this way, they do EBA checkpoints in the middle of the day to get hours up.
    Are they dumber in Marlborough? Or is he on a budget?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    Up this way, they do EBA checkpoints in the middle of the day to get hours up.
    Are they dumber in Marlborough? Or is he on a budget?
    It doesn't count if you pull over some tumbleweed......

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS
    When I lived in Levin a 'few' years ago, the War Vet's Home had that title.
    And I assume the Bowler is Milton? He worked for Harvey's back then. Thought he'd have used their services by now?
    He may have been the founder of the firm but it's now run by John Fisher, Maureen Mackie, Blair Sanson, and Liz and Michael Hill (not THE Michael Hill!). The firm was established in about 1923 I think so they've been around a while. Hope I don't need 'em for a while!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    Up this way, they do EBA checkpoints in the middle of the day to get hours up.
    Are they dumber in Marlborough? Or is he on a budget?
    The EBA hours are generally a given that they will be achieved with the Booze Bus crews working these days. The ACC fund them to target drink driving and that is virtually all that they do, their cars don't even have speed detection devices in them because ACC don't want the units that they are funding doing anything other than targeting drunks.

    I have no idea how dumb they are in Marlborough but I would suggest that they aren't quite as dumb as those in Gore.

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