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Nothing super about it

ost of us are suffering a squeeze on our wallets at the moment. Petrol prices quickly shrugged off Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s temporary tax reduction and now have reached stratospheric levels. City dwellers may be getting a short-term benefit from halved bus fares, but that is not much use for rural folk who have no bus services to use at

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