Auckland's Sky City Casino is expecting a mammoth turnout next week when it starts its recruiting drive to hire more than 1700 people. Bill Birch and Michael Cullen both dismiss the Alliance Alternative Budget, querying the reliability of Jim Anderton's figures. About 2,000 NZ Employment work schemes went without payment for up to three weeks this month because of bugs in a new computer package. Job Plus, Taskforce Green, Enterprise Allowance, and Community Taskforce projects were effected. July 1995 More controversy on the Alliance Alternative Budget and the concept of the financial transactions tax.
Government calls for a report on the unpaid family support blunder.
Annette King demands the government take immediate steps to advise qualifying beneficiaries of their rights to the benefit. NZ Employment says it will meet the costs of bank loans arranged to bridge the cost of work schemes that had gone without payment this month. The University Students Association says that students were entering into marriages of convenience because they were desperate for money to pay for the high cost of attending university. The Retirement Commissioner Colin Blair says that more than a third of NZers were still not saving for their retirement. The interim leader of ACT New Zealand, Sir Roger Douglas, is considering stepping aside.