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IRD considers alternatives to Takapuna offices... p3
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Blood Service desperate for North Shore donors... p6
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School sports aces take aim at next goals... p11
Coastal track access threatened by council stance
A section of the popular Takapuna-to-Milford coastal walkway seems at risk of closure following the failure of negotiations over private land crossed by the path. Following the collapse of a bridge on the walkway in 2011, the public has had informal access through a coastal property at Black Rock.
This was allowed by owner Paul Firth, who died in 2021, and the multiple beneficiaries who have inherited the property. Now, after years of negotiation, Auckland Council officers have backed away from proposals for council to preserve public access by buying the property, or at least an easement over
the strip the path crosses. They say the path through the Firth property will instead be “fenced off” from the adjacent council reserve. A memorandum of understanding was signed in 2018 on how the property might be To page 3
Here comes summer!
Just chillin’... Carmel College students (from left) Libby Clinton with Isla and Alice Gillies enjoyed the sunshine – and treats – at the school’s Christmas Market last weekend
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