The main two winners in rural areas are the schools and roading network. Just over $63 million will go towards helping small and isolated schools upgrade their heating, lighting and energy systems.
A Hawke's Bay meatworks has been fined nearly $330,000 dollars for health and safety failures after a worker partially amputated his fingers with a meat-cutting machine.
A service bringing free counselling sessions to farmers, ultimately getting ahead of the eight week waitlist in the health system, has run out of funding.
