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Tag: Hastings Council
Posted inAccountability, HB councils, HDC, Politics, Spending

Exit the dragon

by mark story

Well-mannered talk quickly turned ugly at Cornwall Park’s Osmanthus Gardens yesterday, as Hastings district councillor Kevin Watkins (pictured) and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, argued over the future of Hastings’ relationship with Chinese sister-city Guilin.                                                            BayBuzz were there to take up the commentary. (Scene: His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama and Hastings district councillor Kevin […]