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By John Freer The playing of the last post will be heard across the Coromandel Peninsula and Hauraki district this week as ANZAC Day is recognised. Parades and services are planned involving many communities – the flavour of which recognise the formality of the Thames Dawn service and a connection with Sir Keith Park, to […]
NZ Transport Agency has issued a notice with times and dates that State Highway 25 will be closed over seven week nights for urgent work to repair and reseal the road at Kerata Hill. Daytime sealing works will also be required. They told CFM that Contractors need a clear road space to carry out the […]
The opening of the new Kopu Marine Precinct is on target for May next year. Some 25 people representing interested parties, today heard that the project is going to plan and to budget. Thames Coromandel Mayor, Len Salt, in addressing those on site, said that the new development had the ability to establish 100 new […]
Hauraki District Council Mayor, Toby Adams, is not giving his blessing to the Government’s revised Three Waters Programme. The refreshment of the scheme – now referred to at Affordable Water Reforms, was announced late last week. Adams said while the scheme may assist some councils, his had made significant and appropriate water investment over the […]
By John Freer If he becomes Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon will work to fix our roads – he will do it in collaboration with our local council and interested parties and on a priority basis. Now that we have that out of the way, there was a freshness about having the Leader of the Opposition […]
Work has started today on the damaged section of SH25 just south of McBeth Road on the Opoutere to Hikuai leg of this section of highway. Work on the damaged area started this morning and the road will remain open while this work is done. However NZTA advise that road closures may occur and the […]
Business recovery funding for the Coromandel Peninsula, Hauraki District and Waikato has a shortfall of $7 million dollars when considering applications lodged, and the funding available. This despite the Government saying it had boosted the original cyclone recovery fund by $25 million. The region has received $3.8 million – there have been 508 applications with […]
By John Freer The meeting room had to be changed as the original choice could not cater for the numbers. This appeared to inject new life into the Whangamata Ratepayers Association today, organisers being overwhelmed by the number of people fronting to discuss flooding issues across their town. A rough count had somewhere between 140 […]
Two people have been apprehended by police after a fleeing driver incident in today. The incident began when a car was stolen from a Whitianga address early this afternoon, and closed State Highway 1B at Taupiri for a period of time. A police officer located the vehicle about 2.20pm, near Waiomu, however according to Waikato […]
By John Freer Members of the Coromandel Peninsula businesses community, iwi and councillors had the chance to sell the need for significant on-going government support on the back of the devastation and impact of double cyclones. In Thames today was the Minister co-ordinating the storm recovery, Minister Michael Wood. After spending the afternoon meeting with […]
