North Shore City makes key finance appointment April 26, 2004

North Shore City Council has appointed Dale Lott to the key new position of group manager - finance following the merger of the council's revenue and finance departments.

Mr Lott, the council's current finance manager, will take up his new role next month and lead a 45-member group. This includes financial and management accounting, funding, rates and revenue, procurement, payroll and the vehicle fleet.

He is also responsible for the production of the council's financial reporting and funding, including the annual report.

A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand , Mr Lott reports to chief financial officer, Roger Duncan.

Tom Wong Kam retires from his role of revenue manager in July following four decades in local government.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>