George, Page joins Pollies for Small Business activities
August 10, 2008
Member for Lismore Thomas George and Member for Ballina Don Page will join more than 80 of their State and Federal colleagues across New South Wales as they are put to work as part of the NSW Business Chamber’s annual Pollies for Small Business program.
Mr George will be visiting local businesses Escape Coffee Lounge in Murwillumbah on Monday 11 August between 9am-11am and Café 29 Downtown in Lismore on Tuesday 12 August between 11am-1pm.
On Monday 11 August Don Page will be at Seaside Motorcycles, 21 Kerr Street, from 9.30am, and Byron Images, corner of Jonson and Lawson streets, from noon.
Mr George said he was looking forward to the experience of being in a small business operator’s shoes for a day.
Flood, frost damage affecting cane crush
July 3, 2008
New South Wales sugar mills crushed 81,155 tonnes of crop in the week ending June 29.
Condong Mill crushed 18,653 tonnes of mainly whole cane, with evidence of 2007 flood and frost damage.
Broadwater Mill crushed 32,124 tonnes with cane quality generally good.
Cane from the upper reaches of the Richmond River is also showing severe effects of last year’s frosting.
Harwood Mill crushed 30,378 tonnes, with road bridge repairs at Harwood and Maclean causing delays to cane transport.
North Coast schools to show their green credentials
July 2, 2008
Schools across the North Coast are keen to show their green credentials at this year’s Sustainable Living Expo at the North Coast National Show.
They have been given the opportunity to do so through the Schools For The Future competition, which encourages students to demonstrate their work on practical ways of minimising resource use, improving recycling and supporting environment projects in the community.
“Our students are involved in sustaintability in three ways,” said the School Education Director for The Wilson School Education Group, Toni Hughes.
“They learn about sustainability in the curriculum, they work to reduce their school’s use of energy and water, and to ensure the school grounds have as small an environmental impact as possible.
Police shut down hydroponic cannabis farms in the Tweed region
June 30, 2008
Police have shut down a sophisticated hydroponic cannabis farm in the Tweed Heads region, arresting seven alleged members of a criminal syndicate and seizing drugs worth millions of dollars.
Strike Force Waragal was established by the Tweed/Byron Target Action Group in November last year to investigate allegations of the commercial cultivation, processing and supply of cannabis in the Tweed Heads area.
Today saw the culmination of seven months of extensive investigations with the raiding of seven properties at Cudgera Creek, Burringbar, Terranora, Banora Point and Palmvale.
On one property, cannabis was being grown in converted underground bunkers, while at another location a number of rooms inside a house had been converted to hydroponic cannabis growing rooms.
Hands off Murwillumbah Hospital, say Nationals MPs
June 28, 2008
The four North Coast Nationals State MPs mounted a vigorous defence of Murwillumbah Hospital as Parliament debated its downgrading on Thursday.
Leading the charge, Lismore MP Thomas George, whose electorate includes Murwillumbah, told Parliament Labor was embarking on a cost-cutting exercise as a result of poor management of the North Coast Area Health Service.
“Services are cut back so people go to other areas. Statistics are then used to wind back the hospital,” Mr George said.
Tweed Nationals MP Geoff Provest said the Iemma Government’s decision to downgrade Murwillumbah hospital was ‘nothing short of a disgrace’.
