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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the decision to proceed with the Parininihi Marine reserve proposal but has reduced the size of the reserve in response to submissions from fishing

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Associate Minister of Social Services Nick Smith today announced the transfer of the remaining vocational services from the Community Funding Agency (CFA) to Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ) from

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Welfare

Associate Social Services Minister Nick Smith said today that New Zealand officials will work with their British counterparts on areas of joint action concerning the welfare of former child migrant

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Corrections Minister Nick Smith is appalled at the number of offences being committed and organised by inmates from prison phones in New Zealand and wants to import technology used in Australia tha

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the announcement of the formal World Heritage listing of the New Zealand subantarctic islands by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultur

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Government would introduce an import prohibition on trout under the Customs and Excise Act 1996, in order to ensure the conservation of tro

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the introduction of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill to Parliament.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Nick Smith, Associate Minister of Social Services launched the first of three Family Start services in New Zealand when he visited Ma Te Whanau Timata Trust Family Start programme in Whangarei toda

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Corrections Minister, Nick Smith, today launched an ambitious Government plan to get prison inmates doing real work.

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today announced plans to install metal detectors in all New Zealand's prisons next year to improve security and safety.

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

Acting Treaty Settlements Ministers Nick Smith today announced that National would not support ACT's Treaty of Waitangi (Final Settlement of Claims) Bill.

  • Nick Smith
  • Treaty Settlements

Conservation Minister, Nick Smith today announced that the Government intends to prepare a National Policy Statement to help local authorities interpret and implement the conservation principles of

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

"Water quality in popular coastal playgrounds will be safeguarded by new Marine Pollution Regulations that prohibit dumping of garbage and controls sewage discharges from boats," the Minister for t

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The Associate Minister of Social Welfare Nick Smith today released the results of a survey of community organisations, which indicates where the New Zealand Community Funding Agency is doing well a

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

The Coalition Government has adopted a National Strategy For The Care of Young Sex Abusers and provided the resources to ensure we deal far better with this group than ever before, Hon Dr Nick Smit

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)

Conservation Minister Nick Smith says it is a bit rich for Forest and Bird to criticise the Government allowing 140,000 hectares of production indigenous forest, when that is exactly what the Socie

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that a small scale muster of Kaimanawa horses is scheduled to begin this weekend, weather permitting.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today announced that Chubb New Zealand Limited has been contracted by the Department of Corrections to provide prisoner transportation and courtroom custodial servic

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Government will be putting out to tender the management and running of the three new prisons in Northland, greater Auckland and the new Cent

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

Corrections Minister, Nick Smith, is angry that four serious criminals escaped last evening from Auckland West medium security prison.

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

The Department of Conservation has no intention of charging schools for public access to national parks and other conservation areas.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

The temporary ban on coastal permits for new marine farms in the Marlborough Sounds has been extended for another year, Minister of Conservation Nick Smith announced today.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Corrections Minister Nick Smith welcomed today the Prime Minister's opening of the country's first self-care units at Christchurch Women's Prison, saying the new approach would help the rehabilitat

  • Nick Smith
  • Corrections

The 1998 Budget brings great news for providers in the voluntary child welfare sector.

  • Nick Smith
  • Associate Minister of Social Services, Work and Income (Work and Income)