Author: John Freer
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By John Freer Increased crime across the Coromandel Peninsula is now on the agenda of the Thames Business Association. With a forum being held this week involving both local police and the Thames Coromandel District Council, TBA chief executive Sue O’Halloran agrees that some organisation must take the lead in finding solutions to the growing […]
TV SHOW FILMED ON HAURAKI PLAINS The economic benefit to our region was apparent with the recent filming of a new six-part television drama across the Hauraki Plains. For six weeks international and local crews worked at Te Aroha, Paeroa and Ngatea filming The Gone – a joint Irish/New Zealand production. Locals have told CFM […]
The new Thames Coromandel District Council is being asked to unlock a further half a million dollars for the proposed Tairua Skateboard Park
The wave of anger and concern caused by the recent sperm whale beaching at Wharekaho (Simpsons Beach) in Mercury Bay, may have subsided with Friday’s burying of the 40-tonne mammal. The only signs evident yesterday were a couple of strops used by diggers to hide the remains of the whale carcass. Local residents are still […]
