Author: John Freer
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If you are a Thames Coromandel district ratepayer, pull out your rate demand and check the numbers. For some people their rates have increased around 27 percent over the past two years. Earlier this week your council started looking at its annual plan which will set next year’s rates. Those councillors have forecast another 7.7 […]
By John Freer Census data which shows per head of population that 35 percent of people living on the Coromandel Peninsula are over 65, has triggered a need for a different approach on our handling the region’s aging population. In raising this Thames Coromandel Mayor, Len Salt, also opened the vexed question of council’s responsibility […]
By John Freer Operators of your local medical centres do not like increasing charges for their patients. Subsequently, across the Coromandel Peninsula and Hauraki districts those people responsible for our front-line healthcare know only too well the impact of increasing fees and communicating the message. Dr Jo Scott-Jones The Clinical Director of Pinnacle Health, Dr […]
Those behind the development of the Tairua River Trail have a dream that being to see the project completed within the next three years. This on the back of today’s announcement that all necessary consents are now in place to enable the trail linking Pauanui and Tairua to be completed. This includes both a bridge […]
By John Freer It could be best labelled as a mute response to a call by the Waikato Regional Council for a regional economic development strategy. In response to a move to replace the wider regional economic development agency Te Waka, the Waikato Regional Council has indicated it was prepared to step into a roll […]
By John Freer As work continues to reopen the walking track to Mautohe Cathedral Cove by early December so do efforts to establish a management plan for the region’s leading tourist attraction. Last week the various stakeholders involved with Cathedral Cove met, under the control of Destination Hauraki Chairman John Sandford. In speaking with CFM, […]
By John Freer It is named the Placemaking Project and now the right people are being sought to bring it to life for the communities of Ngatea, Kerepehi and Paeroa within the Hauraki District. This week the local district council adopted the project for the three towns, it being a concept aimed at area enhancement […]
By John Freer He grew up on a family farm at Waitakaruru on the Hauraki Plains, went and got a degree that had little relevance to any job he wanted to do, and so he did his OE. It was then after getting into technology and teaching in Microsoft systems, that sparked the parallel with […]
By John Freer A wrestle now over another of the iconic Coromandel Peninsula walking tracks. The Coastal Walkway between Fletcher Bay and Stony Bay remains closed due to a number of storm related landslides. Coromandel Colville Community Board chairman and local tour operator, Gavin Jeffcoat, along with CFM, recently walked part of the closed track. Our […]
Work will start next week on the new walking track to Cathedral Cove – this confirmed today by the Department of Conservation. In a media release DOC announced that the removal of dangerous trees and self-sewn wilding pines marks the start of physical work to reinstate temporary walking access to Mautohe Cathedral Cove’s iconic beach. […]
