NAVY RETRENCHMENT ONLY TWO OF the navy's four in-shore patrol vessels will be fully operational for the country's border security over the next 12 months.
Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman denies that a lack of staff is the reason. "At the moment we just haven't got the people available to do the crewing on the third boat because they will be ... taking annual leave [and] taking the opportunity to get some continuing education." The "reduced activity" comes amid the Government's call for the Defence Force to find more than $350 million in annual savings by 2015. Defence had earlier said that switching more than 300 uniformed staff to civilian roles had had a greater impact than expected, but a spokesman for Mr Coleman said, those roles have been re-established as civilian ones. Around 400 back-office jobs across the defence force have been replaced with civilians who aren't in uniform. The four vessels, which have been in operation since 2009, assist in maintaining border security alongside the police, the Department of Conservation, Fisheries and Customs. Reports say that resignations from Defence are at a record high, rising from 112 and 105 in November and December respectively, to 204 in January.
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snapper THESE SNAPPER WERE reportedly a produce of New Zealand seen in a supermarket in China which begs the question: are they a part of the Sanford
Chinese fish processing consortium, or are they from FCVs? Either way one thing is for sure is that they were definitely undersize for legal snapper of New Zealand origin.
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62 DAY LIMIT STATEMENTS MADE IN Budget press releases indicate that the previous 62 day test seems to have been abandoned in preference to an apportionment model. This is a much more pragmatic and commonsense approach to this burning issue.
It would be good to see the detail of the proposals, but at this point nothing seems to be available. We would hope that that 100 percent of compliance and survey costs remain totally deductible whether you do 1 day or 100 days charter, as these costs are incurred because the vessel is used commercially. But the apportionment of other costs should be done pro-rata on demonstrated use. So if a boat is used 20 percent charter, 80 percent pleasure then 20 percent of those other costs will be tax- deductible. These rules will not apply to boats which are only used commercially with no private use.
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