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Councillors met in Thames to consider their options on the climate change declaration before it goes out for public consultation.
A Waikato council has been backed into a corner by newly elected councillors pushing for the mayor to reconsider signing a climate change declaration. In 2019, Thames Coromandel District Council and mayor Sandra Goudie voted against signing the Local Government Leaders’ Climate Change Declaration. It’s a decision that’s since cost thousands of ratepayer dollars after Hauraki Coromandel Climate Action Group took the council to court and won. Councillors Tony Fox, John Morrissey, deputy mayor Murray McLean and Goudie’s opinions, however, have not changed.
Anzac services around the Coromandel-Hauraki region
19 Apr, 2021 01:43 AM
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Waihi Beach
5.45am – fall in parade
9.30am start
6am start at the Memorial Cairn
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5.45am – assemble at the Talisman Hotel
5.55am – march to Katikati War Memorial Hall
6am – service begins
Road closures and a detour in place from Talisman Hotel to the Katikati War Memorial Hall between 5am-7am.
Coromandel Town
10am Service at Memorial Reserve, 355 Kapanga Rd, Coromandel. To be followed by morning tea at The Club, 190 Woollams Ave, Coromandel
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Tapu
5.45am Dawn Parade - from Tapu Fire Station to Cenotaph, Tapu Hall, followed by service. Breakfast provided afterwards at Tapu Fire Station
Health Minister Andrew Little announces the Government plan to abolish the 20 DHBs. “The Government has been promising a lot and there hasn t been a lot around how it was going to happen, but now they’ve announced their skeletal plan that’s favourable to Māori,” Mikaere said. With a focus on three groups – New Zealand health, Māori health and public health – Mikaere said it would “cut down the red tape” in many areas including waiting times, funding and accessibility. “The current system we are in is quite myopic, and it changes from zone to zone.” He said services are “after contracts all the time, but because everything is about population”, smaller populations would often miss out, requiring them to get “more creative about their finances”.
SmartGrowth Leadership Group set to get new independent chairperson
7 Apr, 2021 10:00 PM
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Tauranga City Council Commissioner Bill Wasley. Photo / File
Government ministers are expected to attend an upcoming meeting to appoint a new SmartGrowth chairman following the exit of new Tauranga City Council commissioner Bill Wasley. The SmartGrowth Leadership Group Committee later this month, the Three Waters issue, and a $2 million budget blow-out to fix a Waihi Beach creek were among items discussed at a Western Bay of Plenty District Council meeting yesterday.
Western Bay mayor Garry Webber told the meeting he will chair the April 22 SmartGrowth meeting for about five minutes until the new independent chairperson is appointed.
Traffic surged hours before Auckland s lockdown as motorists headed towards holiday hot spots
16 Feb, 2021 01:21 AM
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Video taken from Rodda Road overbridge near Te Kauwhata, on the Waikato Expressway shows streams of motorists fleeing the city ahead of alert level 3 lockdown. Video / Supplied
Video taken from Rodda Road overbridge near Te Kauwhata, on the Waikato Expressway shows streams of motorists fleeing the city ahead of alert level 3 lockdown. Video / Supplied
Herald reporter based in HamiltonNikki.Preston@nzme.co.nz
NZTA figures show a surge in Aucklanders heading out of the city and towards holiday hotspots in the hours before the city s borders shut on Sunday night.