Erected on Jervois Quay this large Hutt City-produced billboard has a lot of Eastbourne residents hopping mad.
Me too. Probably not for the same reasons though. It made me laugh. And I don't like laughing at money being spent where it shouldn't. It isn't local government's role to drive economic growth through the "arts" (which the Mayor is off to study in Santa Fe) or any other means, beyond keeping the infrastructure up to scratch and rates low.
Competing for economic growth through inflow of people is the job of the private sector. Why? Because they raise money through a voluntary process which in the main keeps them honest and efficient - unlike governments.
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