Ngātiwai Trust Board chairman, Aperahama Kerepeti-Edwards, has raised concerns with health and government officials over the number of testing centres available. “They [people turning up for tests] are sitting in their cars in near-30 degree heat, getting hot, thirsty and distressed.
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Large queues have formed at the Marsden Point testing station. “We are calling on the government and the Northland District Health Board to move urgently and provide more resource into testing.” Two additional pop-up testing centres have been opened in Helensville and Mangawhai and opening hours at all existing testing centres in Northland and Auckland have been extended.
Pranksters vandalising road Whangārei signs costs ratepayers $35k
17 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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A Give Way sign on Winger Crescent in Kamo will cost ratepayers almost $100 to fix. Photo / Michael Cunningham
A Give Way sign on Winger Crescent in Kamo will cost ratepayers almost $100 to fix. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Multimedia journalist for the Northern Advocatekarina.cooper@nzme.co.nz
A children s playground is one alternative to the $35,000 spent on vandalised road signs in Whangārei this year.
A Give Way sign changed to Give Head on Winger Crescent in Kamo was the latest costly joke added to the lengthy bill footed by ratepayers for graffiti repairs, with many containing the same wording.