PHOTO: DAVID UNWIN/STUFF Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith rubs shoulders with Toyota NZ chief executive Alistair Davis and general manager for Asia Region Toyota Motor Corp Toshiyaki Ueshima.
Palmerston North city councillors are refusing to talk about a secret $391,000 grant they made to giant motor company Toyota NZ.
Mayor Grant Smith and a majority of councillors discussed and voted in favour of the grant in a meeting closed to the public in 2017.
The payment of the grant of $391,000 plus GST related to Toyota NZ’s expansion of its Roberts Line head office and national distribution centre was confirmed after an official information request by the Taxpayers’ Union.
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