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Ashley Rhodes [white shirt] with his barrister Simon Judd

For more than 20 years Aucklander Ashley Guy Rhodes made money from New Zealand businesses by copying their ads from other magazines and faxing them over with a request for approval.
Those who signed and faxed back would be billed by him, and sometimes abused and threatened with court action if they did not pay.

Worksafe Australia is investigating a cherrypicker collapse which killed a 25-year-old mechanical engineer at a cement works

Failure to regulate suspect certifications of height access machinery is putting lives at risk and threatens a recently introduced system for control, according to the Elevating Work Platform Association of New Zealand.
In correspondence obtained by subby, EWPANZ secretary Bryan Nunweek accuses the Department of Labour of failure to act against suspect certifications and says the department has ‘deliberately misled’ the association.

Kiwibank customer Paul Glamuzina of NorWest Industrial Estate (centre) with North Shore business managers Rob Greenwood and Debo

Growth in Kiwibank now sees it service almost 30,000 SME businesses and run its own finance company.
Kiwibank gm of business banking Peter Meggison says that in six years of operation, even during recession times, growth has been steady.

Meggison says many plumbers and electricians have taken up Kiwibank services and infrastructure and construction contractors also have business accounts.

Personal service and attention are important.