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July 7 2015
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A birthday tea Fonterra helps local farmer
A team of eight people from the Maungaturoto factory helped a local dairy farmer …
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p Ross Newlove as the Mad Hatter, Liz Card as the White Rabbit, Marcia Unsworth as the Queen of Hearts, Lynley Clements as Alice and Colleen Urlich as a mouse at the Dargaville Museum’s 30th birthday on Sunday. “Hundreds attended the gathering. Thanks to our volunteers, supporters and sponsors Countdown and Orrs pharmacy who helped make the day such a success, we were very pleased with the turnout,” said manager Pene McKenzie.
Changing the flag
Matakohe bridges upgrade funding
New Zealanders are asked ‘what they stand for’ …
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Seeking the Kaipara’s ‘amber gold’ When the Kaipara settlement was young, its riches were not in arable pasture land or in bountiful …
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u by Ayla Miller
The New Zealand Transport Agency has announced that funding has been allocated for planned upgrades to two single lane bridges in Matakohe. Four of the ten single lane bridges promised to be upgraded during the Northland by-election have also been included in the 2015–18 NLTP and four of the remaining bridges may be considered in future plans. Minister of Transport, Simon Bridges says, “the NZ Transport Agency has carried out investigations on ten of the one way bridges on various State highways in Northland and has approved funding for the Matakohe Hardies and Anderson, Kaeo and Taipa bridges.”
Matakohe campaigner Sue Reyland is pleased with the recent announcement saying, “it is all very positive. It has taken a long time to get to this stage and I’m confident it will be worth the wait.” Sue and her daughter were involved in a head-on incident on the Anderson’s bridge in 2012, which spurred her campaign for the two one lane bridges to be made safer. Chairman of the Northland Regional Transport Committee John Bain responded — “While we will now need
to take some time to work through the implications of the latest announcement in a bit more detail, Northland appears to have had a 20 per cent boost in the amount of funding for road maintenance, which compares favourably with the 15 per cent increase across the nation. A detailed business case will be completed along with costing and additional information to confirm viability for construction funding. Detailed time frames for the next stages of planning are yet to be finalised. ¢
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