Interview
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With the Coromandel Peninsula’s peak holiday season behind them now a debrief by Police and other emergency service organisations. Inspector Mike Henwood, who led the new year’s eve operation, said there were a range of matters to be considered such as staffing levels, and the connections across all organisations involved in keeping people safe and […]
Annual race day tomorrow for the Thames Jockey Club, the meeting being held at the recently renovated Te Aroha course. For 157 years the club has been around and president, Glen Dobler, said tomorrow will be no different with its friendly family fun day at the races. The feature race is the Lockwood Coromandel Peninsula […]
There are signs of quiet confidence for the region’s business community moving into 2025, this an opinion shared by three of the regions business leaders. Chairman of the Mercury Bay Business Association, Paul Clayton, his counterpart in Whangamata, Patrick Kerr, and a spokesperson for the Coromandel Colville Business Association, Jeni Ashman, all saying strong holiday […]
With it being Christmas Eve, Father Andy Wallis of Coromandel’s Christ’s Anglican Church has provided us with a message of vision and the hope, that people will experience a wonderful time this year. While mentioning the many issues being experienced across the world, and acknowledging the challenging times being faced by some, Father Wallis said […]
By John Freer As holidaymakers began moving into the Coromandel Peninsula and taking advantage of the two days before Christmas, those behind ensuring a Safer Coromandel were applying the final touches to plans. Much of this being the responsibility of Brian Carter, recently appointed as the districts civil defence and emergency management controller. Brian Carter […]
By John Freer An olive branch with the aim of bringing together the Coromandel Alliance Association and Thames Coromandel District Councillors to establish a constructive relationship. It came during an interview between Mayor, Len Salt, and Alliance chairman, Richard Shelford-Woodcock. The alliance represents a collective of residents and ratepayer associations it claimed that council was […]
By John Freer It was the term localism which stood out at this week’s re-opening of the Whangamata Community Swimming Pool. Several speakers talked about the development of the pool since its origins back in the 1990s through until its latest six-month $430,000 refit. Every one of them referenced a similar theme – their town […]
By John Freer By the end of next year the eastern seaboard of the Coromandel Peninsula should have its own 3D Mammogram machine for breast screening. This from Mike Brown, the driver of Project Mammogram, which raised the $350,000 needed to turn the life-saving idea from a dream to reality. The target was reached last […]
There will be between 5000 and 6000 Scandinavian tourists visit the Coromandel Peninsula this coming summer – one of the people responsible for this is maintaining the number is only going to grow in future years. Stockholm based Travel Designer, Stefan Ostrom, has spent the past four days of a month long New Zealand visit, […]
By John Freer On Friday, 1 November, a 29-year career with the Hauraki District Council comes to an end for its chief executive Langley Cavers. Langley has held the senior role for 23 of those 29 years, that longevity is not uncommon for Hauraki District. As he tells us the council is very stable with […]
