“Surely if Councils are to continue to support Great South and I believe they should then they need to seriously consider electing a chair from our province rather than one who does not live here."
The need for external finance has stymied some of my dreams over the years.but then again I haven't spent thousands of dollars,or let someone e else escape with the rewards.this is not the southland way.
Public money has been spent on this project with rates increased along the way and now this project heads to Canterbury where oats aren’t grown so Southern oats with be trucked up there. Yeah that makes sense!
Seems like another locally funded organisation gone off the rails. We need local people in charge of locally funded organisations. “Keep it in the south” springs to mind.
This processing plant was promoted as having the potential to also support smaller enterprises in Southland wanting to process plant based products.
We have dropped the ball regarding regional resilience and having the focus on exports over domestic supply has caused increasing centralisation. Most of the food we consume in the South comes from the Christchurch distribution centre. Very little on our supermarket shelves comes from Southland famers, including our milk. A bridge wash out between Christchurch and Invercargill will see us run out of essential food in a couple of days.
We don't have commercial fruit orchards growing apples, pears and plums like we used to, we have no local cheese makers, large bakeries, flour mills etc.
When Southland produces the highest quality oats but then has to freight them to Canterbury (I agree with Lindsay Withington), I would have to wonder about the carbon footprint when such considerations are becoming more important.
It does seem as if the main economic drivers to development are what suits the largest players in the sector rather than the common good and regional resilience. Most future focussed economic analysis promotes the flexibility of smaller diverse businesses that can more readily adapt to changing circumstances. New Zealand continues to favour big business and monopolies that make it really difficult for smaller start ups and competitors. We need to encourage new ideas and celebrate regional diversity if we are going to have a strong future economy.
How can it possibly make sense to truck the raw product from Southland to Canterbury to be processed.
Its like saying lets close the freezing works and ship lambs to Christchurch to be processed.
If the board cannot act on the interests of the Southern economy they should revisit their thinking as to why they want to be on the board.
And yes the chair should be from the south. We have plenty of extremely good people who are invested in Southland. Just like our mayors who have to live locally.
Obviously they have a reason for the shift to Canterbury I would like to know what that reason is ?
The need for external finance has stymied some of my dreams over the years.but then again I haven't spent thousands of dollars,or let someone e else escape with the rewards.this is not the southland way.
Public money has been spent on this project with rates increased along the way and now this project heads to Canterbury where oats aren’t grown so Southern oats with be trucked up there. Yeah that makes sense!
Seems like another locally funded organisation gone off the rails. We need local people in charge of locally funded organisations. “Keep it in the south” springs to mind.
This processing plant was promoted as having the potential to also support smaller enterprises in Southland wanting to process plant based products.
We have dropped the ball regarding regional resilience and having the focus on exports over domestic supply has caused increasing centralisation. Most of the food we consume in the South comes from the Christchurch distribution centre. Very little on our supermarket shelves comes from Southland famers, including our milk. A bridge wash out between Christchurch and Invercargill will see us run out of essential food in a couple of days.
We don't have commercial fruit orchards growing apples, pears and plums like we used to, we have no local cheese makers, large bakeries, flour mills etc.
When Southland produces the highest quality oats but then has to freight them to Canterbury (I agree with Lindsay Withington), I would have to wonder about the carbon footprint when such considerations are becoming more important.
It does seem as if the main economic drivers to development are what suits the largest players in the sector rather than the common good and regional resilience. Most future focussed economic analysis promotes the flexibility of smaller diverse businesses that can more readily adapt to changing circumstances. New Zealand continues to favour big business and monopolies that make it really difficult for smaller start ups and competitors. We need to encourage new ideas and celebrate regional diversity if we are going to have a strong future economy.
How can it possibly make sense to truck the raw product from Southland to Canterbury to be processed.
Its like saying lets close the freezing works and ship lambs to Christchurch to be processed.
If the board cannot act on the interests of the Southern economy they should revisit their thinking as to why they want to be on the board.
And yes the chair should be from the south. We have plenty of extremely good people who are invested in Southland. Just like our mayors who have to live locally.