Waihi Coromandel Police Report 9 March
8 Mar, 2021 11:25 PM
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Three firearms were seized following search warrants in Counties Manukau on February 25.
Bay of Plenty Times
Last week in the Coromandel area seven people were arrested for breach of bail and warrants to arrest. There were also chairs and jandals flying through the air, smashed windows, guns and drugs hauled off the streets, a couple of dust-ups due to excess alcohol and Waikato Police executed their first search warrant against gang targets under Operation Tauwhiro.
Operation Tauwhiro is an operation to disrupt and prevent firearms-related violence by criminal gangs and organised crime groups.
Source: New Zealand Police (District News)
Waikatoâs annual Search and Rescue exercise is being held in Pauanui on the weekend of 13 and 14 March, and Police are requesting the support of the public.
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The exercise will be attended by LandSAR volunteers from across the Waikato District and will be based at Pauanui Glades Motor Camp.Â
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On Saturday 13 March there will be a series of workshops around the town, and on Sunday there will be a scenario-based exercise around the town.Â
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As part of this, search teams may call into residential houses and seek permission to search the yards and sections in and around the town.Â
Press Release – Waikato District Council
Waikato District Council Mayor Allan Sanson is advocating for an Auckland Level 2/Level 3 border change in the North West of the Waikato district to allow Port Waikato residents access to facilities in their nearest towns of Tuakau and Pokeno.
Currently Port Waikato is in the Covid-19 Alert Level 2 area, with Auckland’s Level 3 area starting 10 minutes out of the settlement at the Klondyke Rd intersection.
What this means is that if Port Waikato residents need basic supplies from a supermarket or things like fuel, they need to travel for at least 160km (2 and a half hours) on gravel roads to get to Te Kauwhata or Huntly and back.
Covid 19 Coronavirus: Government agency to hand out food parcels after checkpoints cut off Port Waikato
15 Feb, 2021 11:54 PM
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Police man a checkpoint at Klondyke Rd, preventing Port Waikato residents from travelling into nearby Tuakau without permission. Photo / Facebook
Food parcels will be handed at Port Waikato after residents found themselves facing a 160km round trip on a dangerous road to get supplies after a surprise lockdown border change.
The remote seaside north Waikato settlement unexpectedly found itself cut off from its nearest town, Tuakau, yesterday afternoon when police announced a new checkpoint at the intersection of Port Waikato-Tuakau Bridge Rd and Klondyke Rd.
Dumping in paradise: The efforts people go to avoid tip fees
29 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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DoC s Waikato District biodiversity and recreation and historic supervisor helps remove 180 tyres from the Te Toto Gorge near Raglan last year. Photo / DoC
Herald reporter based in HamiltonNikki.Preston@nzme.co.nz
New Zealand s clean, green image is being tarnished by idle people who choose to dump their unwanted whiteware, furniture and old car parts in some of the country s most beautiful spots.
It s not uncommon for a Department of Conservation ranger to come across a trailer-load of rubbish dumped at a secluded site instead of one of the nearby council-owned dumps.