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Queen’s Birthday Weekend Working Bee

A working bee is to be undertaken in the bush on Maugaruawahine to replant some of the area damaged in the slip a couple of months ago. Funding for this planting has been from the Honda Tree Fund utilising plants…

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Labour Weekend Update

New TCDC Dog Control Bylaws There are changes to the previous dog control rules that ensure greater protection for Opoutere’s birdlife. To reflect the significance of the Wharekawa Wildlife Refuge on the sand spit at the entrance to the Wharekawa Harbour…

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Post-Easter Update

Easter was action-packed! The Hall Society elected a new committee after a well-attended AGM, the Beach Boys won the cricket, elaeagnus got chopped down, new babies appeared, the jetty was jumped off, ORRA celebrated some successful fundraising results and we…

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Taking On The Thickest Of Thickets…

  Today a hearty bunch of about 30 people showed up in the bush behind the YHA for the first Weedbusting Working Bee of 2015. We targeted an enormous patch of elaeagnus that is in the process of smothering the beautiful native…

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