Interview
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Another success on the local business front, Whangamata’s Meat at the Beach has taken out a Bronze Medal in the Great NZ Sausage Competition in the real beef sausage class. Rob Holding asked Janene Braithwaite what is behind her and husband Steve’s success. Click on the link to hear the interview.
A significant change to the Beach Hop 25 programme with Pauanui back in the mix after a 14-year break. This was announced yesterday by Beach Hop’s Noddy Watts who outlined that the Pauanui Airfield will be the location to host the Repco Power Cruise on Thursday, March 27. With it comes the opportunity to link […]
By John Freer There is nothing quite like a sporting win to set up a good week, well the Thames Valley Swamp Fox Heartland championship win on Saturday could impact rugby around the region for the coming seasons. And now with the Heartland championship title returning to Thames Valley, it provides the opportunity for local […]
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 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 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 […]
By John Freer Undertaking the final section of the 25 km Tairua River Trail has moved a step closer with the Hikuai District Trust achieving Waikato District Council resource consent. The consent comes with the support of both affected landowners and local iwi. Three more hurdles are still to be jumped being Thames Coromandel District […]
By John Freer A tourism success story for the Coromandel Peninsula today, the Pahi Coastal Walk, established two years ago at Port Jackson, is virtually a sell-out for the coming summer months. This after only two years, means 2000 people will visit the top end of the Coromandel Peninsula to undertake the three day walk […]
