The Auckland City Council's website shows that its total revenue for 2006/2007 was $552 million. The figures Gulf News dug out for us last year from the council using the official information legislation show that the total revenue for Waiheke Island was $15.1 million. Auckland's population in the 2006 census was 404,658. Waiheke's was 7689. Therefore the average rates per head over all of Auckland's administrative area was $1364. On Waiheke it was $1964. We pay our way.
In fact we more than pay our way, because we get fewer services than the mainland. We have no water or wastewater reticulation. So our share, proportionately, is even higher than the straight figures show.
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Waiheke from the west (the end nearest Auckland)
About Me
- Nobilangelo
- My Christian name is pronounced 'noble-arn-jillo' (i.e., both o's are long, so the first two syllables rhyme with 'noble' not 'hobble'--yes, I know that's obvious, because there's only one 'b' between the 'o' and the 'i', but some people seem to see two b's, hence the English lesson). My surname is pronounced kerra-marliss. I was born, bred and educated in New Zealand, except for an international systems-engineer's course in San Antonio, Texas. I am born-again Christian, a thinker with a very practical turn of mind, a scientist with a particular interest in planet-friendly energy and neuroscience, an engineer (mechanical, industrial and IT systems), an inventor, a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a writer and poet, a naturist, a designer in different fields, an arranger and composer of symphonic music, a multi-award-winning IT journalist, a photographer, and a practitioner at various times in other hands-on fields including building, metalwork, woodwork, stained-glass and landscaping.