Lois Williams joins Newsroom after more than three decades as a senior Radio New Zealand journalist and more recently as a Local Democracy reporter on the West Coast. She spent months in hospital and was barely able to walk when she was sent home to her cottage behind the home of her daughter, hairdresser Kim Bolton. And that’s where the bureaucratic nightmare began, according to Kim Bolton. The temporary ramp that ACC has been paying $1000 a week to hire. “As a result, registered contractors from outside the region were sought for this work.”Sorry, says ACCBut Kim Bolton has a point, O’Connor concedes.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 26, 2022 04:05 UTC