New Zealand Breakers to play Cairns Taipans in Rotorua
12 May, 2021 02:17 AM
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The New Zealand Breakers will play the Cairns Taipans in Rotorua next month. Photo / Getty Images
The New Zealand Breakers will play the Cairns Taipans in Rotorua next month. Photo / Getty Images
Rotorua Daily Post
When the Sky Sport Breakers left New Zealand before Christmas, the expectation was they would be home by March.
In four days time, after more than five months separated from their families, the Breakers will finally end a gruelling 153-day road trip in which they will have played 29 consecutive away games.
Emergency housing owners set sights on Rotorua s Ambassador Thermal Hotel
7 May, 2021 09:00 PM
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The Ambassador Thermal Motel on the corner of Hinemaru and Whakaue Sts. Photo / Andrew Warner
A motel lease on prime land overlooking millions of dollars of Rotorua lakefront investment is being bought by new owners who run emergency housing motels. An owner confirmed to the Rotorua Daily Post Weekend they are buying the Ambassador Thermal Motel on the corner of Whakaue and Hinemaru Sts and intend to use it for emergency housing.
But nearby residents and business owners say they are fearful and want the deal stopped, as having emergency housing in such a prime spot is in their view not a good look for Rotorua.
Rotorua s mayor and two councillors have accused Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi of misinformation , with one councillor labelling his comments over a sewerage fault a political stunt .
Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi is accusing Rotorua Council of undertaking a patch up job on a sewerage fault.
Photo: New Zealand Herald / Mark Mitchell
However, Waititi says their comments are a classic deflection technique on the council s part .
Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick raised the issue of Waititi s comments in a Rotorua Lakes Council Operations and Monitoring Committee meeting on Thursday morning.
In an 11 April Māori Party press release titled Rotorua Council needs to clean its s t up , Waititi said he had attended a community hui in Ngāpuna where locals had spoken of physical and psychological suffering due to a sewerage fault which occurred on 29 March.
Ngongotahā roadworks: More delays expected as detour in place for six weeks
3 May, 2021 11:42 PM
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Traffic build up at Ngongotaha due to work on the Ngongotaha Roundabout. Phot / File
A six-week detour caused by major roadworks on two state highways is expected to cause further delays, but residents say the disruptions are inconvenient but necessary. Construction of a new roundabout at the intersection of State Highways 5 and 36 in Ngongotahā began in September last year and has caused congestion on the way in and out of Rotorua.
Commuters told Rotorua Daily Post in March getting to school and work in the mornings was like playing a game of Russian roulette.
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