"Early on in my morality I realised that things were going to get tough...

That should be mayorality

Tripe said cutting food scrape collections saved Whanganui 1.1 percent on rates.

Food scraps. They repeat the same mistake throughout the article.

It reads like something that was written with voice dictation and not checked for errors, it's frankly embarrassing. And it's something I've been noticing more and more.