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A community project to fill 10,000 sandbags for Tairāwhiti next weekend is the first of its kind in New Zealand. Tairāwhiti Emergency Management Manager Ben Green says there’s been a groundswell of awhi for this project, which is a joint initiative .
A new round of heavy rain is causing more strife on the North Island’s east coast, with “severe flooding” and evacuations in Gisborne and at least two majo