August 25 2026
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Applause for local heroes Paint the town yellow For as long as there’s been a Daffodil Day, the ANZ Bank in Dargaville has been in full support, and this year is no exception …
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p Winners of the 2026 Kaipara Citizens Awards, their nominees, mayor Larsen and councillors enjoy the spring sunshine, following a heartfelt ceremony of gratitude. The awards recognise those local heroes among us who make Kaipara a better place to live.
Iwi rejects landfill company claim
Aged care is health care Aged Care Association CEO Tracey Martin addressed Grey Power members last Friday at its monthly meeting to …
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Kaipara iwi are rejecting support claims for the planned Auckland rubbish landfill in the Dome Valley, in a Waste Management move to fast-track the dump and its perceived threat to the Kaipara Harbour. “This is a treaty settlement that has gone seriously wrong from the outset. Members of the tribe living over 300km away are in control, and the environmental impacts of the landfill will not affect them,” says Fight the Tip executive member and Tinopai Resource Management Unit director, Mikaera Miru. “In Waste Management’s fast-track application they have quoted Mook Hohneck from the Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust claiming ‘Ngāti Manuhiri supports the Dome Valley landfill’.” Mr Miru said Mr Hohneck stated at a public hui ‘that it would be over his dead
body that the Dome valley landfill would be built’, but when Waste Management promoted remedial money and houses he was the first to agree, undermining unity of all the community opposed to the landfill. “In fact, Annie Baines the chairperson of Omaha Marae has advised in a public hui that Ngāti Manuhiri rank and file members are opposed to the landfill. This is a serious injustice and an environmental ticking time bomb for the second-largest harbour on earth. “The trust deed has been breached regarding major transactions with serious social and environmental consequences.
An application has been before the Māori Land Court for five years waiting for a hearing date to address these matters. “If justice is really a fundamental principle of our judicial system then Waste Management’s landfill application should be subject to the outcome of this matter in the Māori Land Court as should the fast-track application.” While the dump support issue is awaiting the Māori Land Court, Forest and Bird’s appeal against Waste Management’s destruction of 12km of coastal waterways is currently underway in the Appeal Court in Wellington. ¢
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