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NORTHLAND — Independent hearings commissioners have granted an application by Meridian Energy Limited (MEL) to build a multi-million dollar 172-hectare solar farm across three sites at Marsden Pt, Ruakākā.

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NORTHLAND — A new to mainland New Zealand red seaweed - Asparagopsis taxiformis - has been found at Tamaterau in Whangārei Harbour and at Iris Shoal, Kawau Island.

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NORTHLAND — A Northland man has been fined more than $33,000 for an incident that saw dozens of large tyres burnt on a property south of Kaiwaka in early January last year.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being asked to keep an eye out for new patches of Manchurian wild rice grass within a formal ‘Eradication Zone’ that covers much of the region amid fears the invasive pest plant could have been spread during recent flooding.

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NORTHLAND — A meeting between new Conservation Minister, Willow-Jean Prime, the Northland Regional Council and the Department of Conservation has highlighted the shared goals that local and central government have for Taitokerau, the council says.

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NORTHLAND — Investigations are underway into the mysterious loss of most of the submerged vegetation in Lake Taharoa, the largest in the Kai Iwi dune lakes group and Northland’s deepest lake.

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NORTHLAND — Two dozen Northland Regional Council staff have taken part in a practical exercise based around a fictional oil spill from a commercial fishing vessel running aground on a rock in the Tutukaka Harbour.

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NORTHLAND — Organisers estimate about 300 lifejackets have been distributed to communities throughout Northland over the past several years as part of an innovative lifejacket library scheme.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council has revealed a suite of measures in response to Cyclone Gabrielle including a ‘pragmatic’ approach to non-compliance, plans to remove some trees from rivers and freeing up funding to help repair storm-damaged fences.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s six-monthly tsunami siren test will take place at the end of daylight saving on Sunday, 2 April.

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DARGAVILLE — A large hare is thought to be behind Northland’s most recent ‘wallaby’ sighting.

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KERIKERI — A picturesque three-kilometre section of the Te Araroa length-of-New Zealand trail at Kerikeri has been upgraded and is now open for all walkers to enjoy.

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NORTHLAND — Senior Northland Regional Council manager Jonathan Gibbard has been appointed as the organisation’s new CEO - Tumuaki.

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NORTHLAND — Potential changes to the way Northlanders are represented around the Northland Regional Council table are a step closer after a visit from the Local Government Commission.

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NORTHLAND — The public is about to get another chance to make further comment on one of Northland’s most important local authority plans – the Northland Regional Council’s Proposed Regional Policy Statement (RPS).

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NORTHLAND — Two independent commissioners have granted permission for a 94 hectare marine farm off Stephenson Island in the Far North, citing the significant economic benefits it will bring to an “impoverished” part of the country.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s district councils, major industries and consented water users are being urged to closely monitor their water use and prepare for possible shortages and restrictions unless there is significant rain over the next month or two.

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DARGAVILLE — Smoked eel pate will be the tasty treat designed to entice visitors to the Northland Regional Council's marquee at next month's Northland Field Days in Dargaville.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council is reminding jetski users their machines must be registered for use in the region, should be operated responsibly - and not by unsupervised young people.

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NORTHLAND — Better-than-expected investment earnings and a close look at its budget have enabled the Northland Regional Council to more than halve its previously signalled general rates increase.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders and visitors to the region are being warned about the possibility of heavy weekend rains and strong winds – the unwanted legacy of Tropical Cyclone Evan which earlier this week cut a swathe of destruction through the Pacific.

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NORTHLAND — The current pre-Christmas weather conditions are right for the re-emergence of a little-seen, lawn-devouring South American weevil in the Far North, a Northland-based insect expert says.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council is planning a major fact-finding exercise next year to see what form Northlanders think local government in the region should take – and says it will reserve its collective judgement until those views are known.

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NORTHLAND — People heading out on the water in Northland over summer are being urged to take extra care, keep a proper watch and make sure they fly dive flags if they have divers in the water.

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NORTHLAND — Diggers will be a common sight in the Waiarohia Stream over the next several months as a major river maintenance project to reduce urban Whangarei flooding continues.

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WHANGAREI — Whangarei Heads School has become just the second school in Northland to achieve prestigious ‘Green-Gold’ status through the national Enviroschools programme.

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NORTHLAND — Annual Northland Regional Council summer water quality tests to indicate how safe our most popular beaches, rivers and lakes are for swimming will begin again shortly.

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NORTHLAND — A single Bay of Island constituency and including all of the Tutukaka Coast in one constituency are among a number of publicly-driven changes which now form the Northland Regional Council’s ‘Representation Arrangements Review Final Proposal’.

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NORTHLAND — Sixty-three students from throughout Northland gathered recently for the 2012 Northland Regional Council Youth Summit in Whangarei.

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NORTHLAND — An independent commissioner has declined an application by a Northland company to take extra water from Whangarei’s Poroti Springs, citing an inability to properly monitor its effects on the springs and the impact of that on Maori cultural values.

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A dozen bush experts are to share their knowledge with an estimated 200 Northland Enviroschools students and teachers in Kaeo and Whangarei shortly.

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NORTHLAND — Roughly 23,000 Northland landowners are being contacted this week as the Northland Regional Council seeks public feedback on maps linked to the region’s most significant planning document.

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WHANGAREI — A special directive has been issued requiring all vessels to stay at least 100 metres clear of sensitive wave measuring equipment used to decide whether oil tankers and other large vessels can safely enter Whangarei Harbour.

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NORTHLAND — Now is the time to practise good orchard hygiene and take other steps to protect Northland fruit crops favoured by the unwanted Aussie insect invader the guava moth, biosecurity experts say.

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NORTHLAND — Public submissions on regional council plans for a more community-focussed way on how Northlanders are represented around the council table will be heard at Kaikohe and Whangarei on October 17.

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NORTHLAND — Ongoing concerns over boaties stopping in the way of cruise ships has prompted a reminder of the ban on anchoring in part of the Bay of Islands when the huge vessels are moving within the harbour.

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NORTHLAND — Northland plantation forestry owners and contractors keen to better manage their earthworks and harvesting are being urged to attend one of five free local authority workshops being offered around the region next week.

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NORTHLAND — Public feedback is being sought on a revised proposal to modify Pataua’s two existing ski lanes for a single ‘speed uplifting area’ and restrict high speed activities to a roughly 1.4km long section.

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NORTHLAND — Time is running out for Northlanders to have their say on regional council plans for a more community-focussed way on how they are represented around the council table.

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NORTHLAND — Three new appointees are to join Executive Chairman Colin Mitten at the helm of the region’s newly-integrated economic development and tourism body Northland Inc.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders will soon be able to make a formal submission on the region’s most significant planning document – the Proposed Regional Policy Statement – which sets out how our natural and physical resources are managed.

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WHANGAREI — Public demand has prompted Whangarei’s CityLink public bus service to begin trialling a twice-daily service linking the Kamo west area with the city’s central business district from October.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s battle to remain free of the kiwifruit vine-killing PSAv takes on a special urgency over the next few weeks as vines enter a stage of their life cycle that makes them vulnerable to the disease.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders can find out what marine pests are - and how they can help stop their spread - at free workshops being offered to local communities throughout the region.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council has presented cheques to two Kaipara schools which have shared a $1750 slice of this year's Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

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NORTHLAND —   Lessons from Christchurch’s devastating earthquakes show most Northland business owners are ill-prepared to survive and recover from an emergency, the region’s Civil Defence officials say.

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NORTHLAND — Twenty-one Northlanders are to gain specialist poison training as part of the latest addition to the ground-breaking ‘Project Possum’ initiative.

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NORTHLAND — A 15-year-old Kerikeri High School student’s study into dune plant growth has earned her this year’s Northland Regional Council ‘Excellence Award’ at the Top Energy Far North Science and Technology Fair.

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NORTHLAND — Studying snail behaviour has earned a Whangarei student a $1000 Northland Regional Council award at the Refining NZ Central Northland Science and Technology Fair.

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NORTHLAND — Fourteen people aged 18 to 24 have today become the latest young Northlanders to officially graduate from an innovative local authority cadetship scheme designed to help them find fulltime work.

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NORTHLAND — Biosecurity officials are working to try to contain a large infestation of banned koi carp - one of Australasia’s worst freshwater pest fish - found in two Kaipara farm ponds.

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NORTHLAND — September 01 hails the official start of both Spring and the scallop season – but it also comes with a safety warning for those seeking the seasonal delicacy in Northland.

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NORTHLAND — A $1 million Northland Regional Council tax refund will eventually go back into ratepayer’s pockets – and cut the period over which rates are levied for the Northland Events Centre by more than a year.

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NORTHLAND — Northland's regional councillors are suggesting a more community-focussed way to how they represent Northlanders – abandoning an 'outdated' current model based on the three district boundaries and replacing it with eight, smaller constituencies.

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NORTHLAND — A Northland marina that has suffered strong tsunami-related tidal movements in recent years now has its own tsunami siren and warning light.

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NORTHLAND — More than 20 school caretakers from around Northland are to gather in Whangarei next week for a special Enviroschools Northland workshop.

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NORTHLAND — A Northland-wide mapping project to meet latest government requirements for identifying outstanding natural areas and coastal land is currently being rolled out in the Far North.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council and Te Uri o Hau have rekindled their ongoing relationship, signing a special agreement giving the Kaipara hapū a more active role in the management of its tribal area.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council has begun presenting cheques to the five Far North schools which are sharing a $5550 slice of this year’s Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

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NORTHLAND — A new environmental plan launched yesterday by Te Uri o Hau marks an historic milestone for the Kaipara hapū's role in managing its natural and physical resources.

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NORTHLAND — A judge has ordered a Northland farmer to pay $24,000 for illegal discharges of dairy effluent from a storage tank and pond at the man’s Donnelly’s Crossing property in 2010.

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NORTHLAND — About 50 Northland contractors and consultants are attending a series of Whangarei-based seminars designed to better protect the region’s waterways from harmful sediment runoff.

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NORTHLAND — Experienced businessman and Northland Port Corporation chairman Colin Mitten has been appointed to spearhead a new direction for the region’s newly-integrated economic development and tourism body.

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NORTHLAND — Better flood protection for the Kerikeri-Waipapa area and funding for Kaitaia’s public bus service are among a variety of measures that will take effect under the Northland Regional Council’s newly-adopted Long Term Plan 2012-2022.

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NORTHLAND — Projects from a mobile henhouse to creating a heritage garden are among 19 school initiatives to share this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

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NORTHLAND — Bylaw changes designed to make Northland’s harbours and estuaries safer – and which reflect changes in recreational use – will take effect from 01 July, 2012.

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NORTHLAND — Dozens of teachers and students have been on the road taking a first-hand look at some of Northland’s sustainable businesses as part of an Enviroschools Northland bus tour.

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WHANGAREI — Northland Regional Council members are hoping members of the public will take advantage of an offer to catch up with them for an informal chat and a coffee ahead of their regular monthly meetings.

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NORTHLAND — Sheep rustlers are being blamed for dumping animal remains in Northland streams, putting water quality at risk and costing the region’s ratepayers hundreds of dollars a time in clean-up costs.

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WHANGAREI — Hard work by the local community has led to growing numbers of kiwi at Whangarei Heads according to research published recently in the online journal Conservation Evidence.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being asked to report sightings of any new or unusual marine life after the discovery of two unwanted pest species on the hulls of several commercial vessels moored in Whangarei.

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The many environmental education opportunities offered by Northland’s coast have been highlighted to 24 teachers at Te Moana, a special Northland Regional Council workshop in Taipa this week.

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NORTHLAND — CityLink’s Raumanga and Morningside bus service will be temporarily re-routed from Monday 28 May 2012 due to roadworks along the route.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders keen to learn more about some of the worst weeds threatening our region – and how best to tackle them – are being urged to register now for one of a series of free workshops.

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NORTHLAND — More than 80 Northland students are to gain hands-on knowledge of possum trapping, fur and pelt recovery in the latest ‘Project Possum’ training run under the umbrella of the popular Enviroschools Programme.

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NORTHLAND — Whangarei is home to some of Northland best wetlands and landowners are being encouraged to look after them in a new Northland Regional Council mailout.

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NORTHLAND — Illegal discharges of farm effluent from two feedpads at a Ruawai farm in 2009 have cost a Northland man just under $60,000 in fines and court-ordered costs and expenses.

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NORTHLAND — Twenty-eight teachers are set to attend a special Northland Regional Council workshop highlighting the environmental education teaching opportunities offered by the region’s 3200 kilometre coastline.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders keen to protect their properties from erosion are being reminded the annual planting season for poplars and willows is now upon us.

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NORTHLAND — Time’s running out for people to have their say on Northland Regional Council’s proposed plans for the coming decade, which include some major flood reduction works and criteria for a multimillion dollar economic development fund.

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NORTHLAND — A banned aquatic weed that forms dense mats that can double in size in days and pose a drowning risk has been discovered in two home garden ponds in Northland, prompting a warning from biosecurity experts.

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NORTHLAND — An expo showcasing a new environmental education pilot programme targeting Northland pre-schoolers is being hailed a success by organisers.

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NORTHLAND — A new MetService forecast shows another 70mm to 90mm of rain may be on its way for Northland, with people warned to be vigilant and stay off the region's roads overnight.

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NORTHLAND — Civil Defence officials are warning Northlanders to brace themselves for widespread flooding over the next day in the wake of a new heavy rain warning issued for the region.

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NORTHLAND — The gum leaf skeletoniser - a pest caterpillar bristling with poisonous spines - has now been discovered in Kerikeri, prompting a warning for adults to keep an eye on curious children.

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NORTHLAND — Discharging farm effluent and silage leachate into tributaries of the Wairoa River at Ruawai has cost a Northland farming couple almost $70,000 in fines and court costs.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being encouraged to have their say on council plans for the region's future - including proposals for economic development funding and some big flood protection works.

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NORTHLAND — A parasitic wasp released in the Whangarei area to target a newly-discovered pest caterpillar bristling with poisonous spines is the latest addition to more than two dozen biocontrol agents now at work in Northland.

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NORTHLAND — The popular Enviroschools programme is to trial a new year-long pilot initiative targeting Northland pre-schoolers.

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NORTHLAND — The Taipa Beach Improvement Society is this year’s winner of the ‘Best Coastal Dune Restoration Project Award’; an annual award presented by the Dune Restoration Trust of New Zealand.

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Two sailors who will represent New Zealand at this year’s Olympic Games in London have been jointly named the Northland Sailor of the Year for 2011.

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NORTHLAND — A new locally-built workboat has joined the Northland Regional Council’s maritime fleet after a blessing and naming ceremony in Opua today.

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DARGAVILLE — In recent years the regional council has successfully used a variety of food made from pests as a fun way of attracting visitors.

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NORTHLAND — Organisers are expecting more than 80 people from as far as Southland to attend the Dune Restoration Trust of New Zealand’s fifth annual national conference in the Far North.

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WHANGAREI — Northland Regional Council’s new chief executive has been formally welcomed to his new position with a powhiri by local kaumatua and kuia in Whangarei today.

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NORTHLAND — Time is running out for people to have their say on proposed bylaw changes designed to make Northland’s harbours and estuaries safer and reflect changing recreational use of them.

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NORTHLAND — Bream Bay residents keen to take part in a survey gauging demand for the possible reintroduction of a public bus service between Ruakaka and Whangarei have a month left to do so.

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