{"id":5024,"date":"2023-05-30T08:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2023-05-30T08:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:08:59","slug":"fog-cannons-dairy-owners-unhappy-with-delays-as-extra-11m-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5024","title":{"rendered":"Fog cannons: Dairy owners unhappy with delays as extra $11m announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small retailers in Auckland say the rollout of the fog cannon subsidy to protect their shops from robbery needs to be faster, and some want the eligibility criteria expanded.<\/p>\n<p>A $4000 subsidy was set up last year after the death of Auckland dairy worker Janak Patel. The government on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/490912\/watch-pm-chris-hipkins-speaks-after-cabinet-meeting\">announced an extra $11 million for the scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some retailers are fed-up with delays in getting the devices installed.<\/p>\n<p>Since February, of the 1664 approved applications 584 had been installed, and the government said a further 3350 would be subsidised by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>But some who applied earlier are still waiting. Sandringham dairy owner Dayana paid an application fee more than three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I paid $250, still work is going on, they said June they&#8217;re going to do, still waiting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dayana&#8217;s shop suffered three aggravated robberies last year, her husband once held at knife-point. She said every day at work was frightening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually it&#8217;s scary, because day by day it&#8217;s everywhere, there&#8217;s robbery going on, it&#8217;s not easy to stand here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small retailers in Auckland say the rollout of the fog cannon subsidy to protect their shops from robbery needs to be faster, and some want the eligibility criteria expanded. A $4000 subsidy was set up last year after the death of Auckland dairy worker Janak Patel. The government on Monday\u00a0announced an extra $11 million for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}