Hauraki district pensioner rents set to increase
Hauraki’s pensioner housing rents will increase by $18 per week from August in order to keep up with “ever-increasing” operational costs. The district council’s 57 elderly persons housing units were…
The old Ngatea library building, above, is going to be knocked down to make way for a new, purpose-built one.
Photo: KELLEY TANTAU
$4.8m earmarked for new library hub
Story time for children; digital drop-ins for the technologically challenged; school visits and genealogy mentoring and film sessions. These are all things the Paeroa and Waihī libraries have and Ngātea…
Ernie Sunlay’s Thames Coast paddock was a grim sight on the mornings of May 22 and 26, when two separate attacks by an unknown dog fatally injured his two wethers and an ewe.
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Sheep mauled to death by dog in Te Puru
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTA “placid and trusting” ewe that used to be petted by the children of Te Puru was one of three sheep attacked and killed by a roaming dog.…