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Government's multi-billion dollar provincial growth fund will make big money for one of its benefactors

By Jessica Mutch McKay, Former Political Editor
July 12, 2018

1 NEWS has learned the Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust will profit hugely from the tax payer investment, and critics argue it's not a good look.

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