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Auckland pipped at post after spending hundreds of thousands entering world award

UPDATED with comments from Len Brown.

Sally Lindsay
Thu, 17 Mar 2016

Auckland has been pipped at the post by a Colombian city in the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize – a competition Auckland Council spent $103,000 of ratepayers’ money entering.  

It is a prize few people have ever heard of and which appears to have no lasting benefits.

Auckland was one of five

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Sally Lindsay
Thu, 17 Mar 2016
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