Rotorua District Council
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Rotorua District is New Zealand's fourth largest district by population. Located in the Bay of Plenty, the Rotorua District centres on Rotorua City. Rotorua is around the southern shoreline of Lake Rotorua. It extends to include a substantial rural district encompassing 14 lakes, areas of geothermal activity and considerable areas of public open space. The economy is based on tourism, agriculture and forestry.
ROTORUA — Working together the Rotorua community and the Bay of Plenty Regional Council have removed 50 open fires and 318 old wood burners from Rotorua homes through an interest-free loan programme called the Hot Swap Loan.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council’s tourism head Don Gunn is leaving the council to pursue private sector business opportunities after eight years as general manager of regional tourism organisation, Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing.
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ROTORUA — The Rotorua Museum and Rotorua District Library have both picked up trophies in the 2011 Rotorua’s Top Business Awards.
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ROTORUA — The proposal was one of a number of recommendations adopted by the council’s Economic & Regulatory Services Committee today as the first phase in implementing the city’s Urban Design Framework.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council’s economic development general manager, Grant Kilby, is leaving the council after four years to take up a new position with Rotorua's Agrodome.
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ROTORUA — Locals with Russian, Samoan, Irish, Fijian and Namibian links are being sought to help entertain, wow and amaze visitors during Rotorua’s Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC2011) celebrations.
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ROTORUA — Ten high achieving Rotorua residents have been recognised for their outstanding service to the Rotorua community.
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ROTORUA — One hundred and twenty five years after their destruction in the 1886 eruption of Tarawera, part of Rotorua’s world famous Pink & White Terraces are to be seen again in the city.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council’s Children’s and Family Fun Day held at The Redwoods in March raised $510 for the Rotorua Hospital Children’s Unit.
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ROTORUA — A top line-up of exhibitors has signed on to take part in New Zealand’s showcase business tourism event, MEETINGS 2011, to be staged at Rotorua's Energy Events Centre in June.
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ROTORUA — SPARC’s High Performance Board has announced the selection of Waikato/Bay of Plenty's bid as the preferred tenderer to develop New Zealand’s National Cycling Centre of Excellence.
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ROTORUA — A comprehensive expenditure survey on the 2011 Raggamuffin music festival has highlighted the huge economic benefit Rotorua gets every year from hosting the popular international music event.
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ROTORUA — Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing (DRTM) has unveiled an ambitious programme of marketing goals and top line strategies for the coming 18 months.
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ROTORUA — An online advertising campaign aiming to entice more Australians to Rotorua this winter has been launched by Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing (DRTM) and Tourism New Zealand.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) has once again brought home the award for the most cycling active large organisation in New Zealand.
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ROTORUA — A Rotorua District Council (RDC) animal control officer went beyond the call of duty this week when he brought a stray puppy back to life with mouth-to-muzzle resuscitation.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is urging dog owners to be responsible following an influx of wandering pets being picked up by animal control officers.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is offering local people the opportunity to learn from one of Australasia’s experts in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) next month.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council staff and contactors have coped well with a raft of weather related problems across the district during the weekend’s big storm and most efforts today were part of a systematic clean-up and inspection phase.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is conducting an investigation into safety measures at Kuirau Park following the death of a ten year old boy who fell into a hot pool on Boxing Day.
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ROTORUA — For the sixth time in 11 years Rotorua is officially once again the country’s ‘Best City’ having taken top honours in the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Awards this week.
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ROTORUA — Edition coming to Rotorua RnB group New Edition coming to Rotorua 09 November 2010 Members of popular 80s and 90s group New Edition will be making their way to Rotorua next month during the group’s 2010 Heads of State tour.
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ROTORUA — Pukaki’s placement at the entrance of the Rotorua Museum of Art & History’s new ‘Nga Pumanawa o Te Arawa’ exhibition next year will coincide with another significant gifting to our local iwi.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is on the look-out for 16 diverse young people to join the 2011 Rotorua District Youth Council.
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ROTORUA — American music legend Garry Puckett is coming to Rotorua to perform one show, on November 22 in the newly upgraded Civic Theatre.
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ROTORUA — ‘One person’s junk is someone else’s treasure’, or so the old saying goes.
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ROTORUA — The Minister for the Environment Hon Nick Smith has announced that an innovative Rotorua research initiative will be awarded $1 million over two years from the Ministry’s Waste Minimisation Fund, subject to signing of the deed.
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ROTORUA — Bay of Plenty Regional Council and Rotorua District Council are working together to formulate how to allocate Rotorua’s geothermal resources following a workshop last week.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) has approved a total of more than $4.6m of contracts for highway re-sealing, upgrading water services, and sewage waste treatment.
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ROTORUA — Lakefront reached a milestone today with the release of a document that lays out the desired future look of the city centre.
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ROTORUA — Auckland Museum Trust Board has approved the loan of 13 significant taonga Maori to the people of Rotorua.
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ROTORUA — From 1996, Don Stafford and Kerry Fowler made 21 documentaries together, including the Hindsight Series, Out and About Series, and Rotorua Legends Series.
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ROTORUA — A highly successful partnership with Rotorua District Council and Events & Venues Rotorua for policing the city's annual Raggamuffin music festival, has contributed to local Police senior sergeant Brent Crow picking up a national award.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua residents are feeling safer despite more personal experiences of crime over the last twelve months.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is to carry out New Zealand’s first application of MBR (Membrane Bio Reactor) technology to treat large scale community wastewater.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Rotorua and the wider Bay of Plenty are being urged to come up with ideas for the biggest festival ever staged in this country, being held around next year’s Rugby World Cup.
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ROTORUA — While most Rotorua ratepayers will receive their first quarter property rates invoices in the mail later this week for the new 2010/11 year, council officials are telling property owners they can actually reduce the total amount they have to pay if they make payments early.
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ROTORUA — A colourful, information-packed series of pamphlets about planning and land use processes has been developed by Rotorua District Council to assist its customers.
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ROTORUA — Bay of Plenty Regional Council is taking a closer look at what’s in backyard ornamental ponds in the Rotorua area to protect lakes from potentially harmful invaders.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua is adding a top trans-Tasman multisport event to next year's line-up of Queen's Birthday weekend celebrations.
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ROTORUA — Recently elected Te Arawa Standing Committee (TASC) members attended their first meeting at the Rotorua District Council (RDC) Civic Centre today following committee elections last month.
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ROTORUA — Action against the Rotorua Citizens’ Club for alleged breaches of its liquor licence has been abandoned following a meeting of the club’s executive and the Rotorua District Licensing Authority (DLA).
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ROTORUA — Local drivers taking care on the road are in for a chance to win prizes in the Ruru Road Safety Driving Awards.
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ROTORUA — A pilot project has been launched on Lake Rotoiti to harvest green algae infesting the lake - and to possibly turn it into useful products.
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ROTORUA — Ruru the road safety morepork is spreading its wings to high speed zones in Rotorua.
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ROTORUA — The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has announced that a $1.3M contract for a detailed investigation into the Rotorua Eastern Arterial has been awarded to Opus International Consultants.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council today (Tuesday 18 May) starts the second of four days of hearings related to the draft Annual Plan, draft Waste Management & Minimisation Plan, and draft Air Quality Control Bylaw.
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ROTORUA — Tamati Coffey, roving weather presenter for TVNZ’s ‘Breakfast’ programme is bringing the Rugby World Cup’s ‘Webb Ellis Cup’ to Rotorua on Tuesday (17 May).
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ROTORUA — Teenagers are in for a treat when popular Kiwi R&B singer and hip hop dancer J.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua is better prepared for a major emergency following Rotorua District Council’s full day Civil Defence exercise staged this week.
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ROTORUA — Rural communities have until the end of the month to apply for a free bus shelter for their area courtesy of Rotorua District Council’s (RDC) business partner Totalspan Steel Sheds and Buildings.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council has been swamped with submissions on its draft annual plan and other proposals with more than 4000 submissions received when the consultation period closed at the end of last week (Friday 7 May).
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ROTORUA — Four pianos that have been occupying public spaces around the Rotorua CBD over the past month are ready to be re-homed.
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ROTORUA — More than 70 people attended an open day to discuss the draft Air Quality Control Bylaw in Rotorua last week – the majority supporting measures to clean up Rotorua’s air according to Environment Bay of Plenty and Rotorua District Council staff.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council community arts officer Kiri Jarden leaves for the United Kingdom and Ireland next month to explore those countries' approach to developing public arts.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council has granted Resource Consent approval for MetService to install a weather radar on the Mamaku Plateau this year.
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ROTORUA — New Zealand’s forestry and wood products sector is set to come to the fore during Rugby World Cup 2011, with a Forestry and Wood Industries Festival planned in to showcase the sector to Government officials, companies and visitors from around the world.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council’s annual ‘Perceptions of Safety Survey’ commenced this week.
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ROTORUA — Visitors to this evening's [22 April] Rotorua Night Market are in for a culinary treat with free cooking demonstrations from professional chef Peter Blakeway on the evening’s menu.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua mayor Kevin Winters will host this year’s annual Anzac Day Civic Memorial Service, at the Rotorua Convention Centre on Sunday 25 April, at 9.30am.
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ROTORUA — Local residents have the opportunity to find out more about a number of Rotorua District Council proposals for the 2010/11 year at two public meetings being held next week.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is installing 40kph school speed zone signs outside Sunset Primary School.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council’s (RDC) E Oho youth programme won the Supreme Award at the Youth in Local Government Conference national awards function in Porirua last week.
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ROTORUA — Fifty films will screen at the Magma Short Film Festival when it returns to Rotorua’s Shambles Theatre at the end of the month.
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ROTORUA — The prime minister's office today announced that Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, will visit Rotorua on April 21 and 22 as part of a five day official visit to New Zealand.
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ROTORUA — One of Rotorua's most respected residents, Don Stafford, has died after a brief illness.
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ROTORUA — Employers in rural areas are being encouraged to help their migrant workers get established in the community.
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ROTORUA — New direct trans-Tasman air services from Sydney have convinced the mayor of the Rotorua’s Australian sister city to bring his family to Rotorua this week for a holiday.
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ROTORUA — On Saturday [27 March] at 8.30pm, people in Rotorua and around the world turned their lights off for one hour to take action on global warming.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council (RDC) is taking prompt action to review its Geothermal Safety Bylaw.
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ROTORUA — Four pianos will be placed in public spaces for the next six weeks for passersby to enjoy.
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ROTORUA — A programme of ground stabilisation will begin shortly underneath the Rotorua Museum of Art and History to ensure the iconic Bathhouse building can continue to host visitors and locals alike for another 100 years.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua residents are likely to see very little change in their rates bills this coming year as Rotorua District Council is proposing to hold the increase for total district rates to under 1%, below national inflation estimates of around 2%.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua District Council has released a new brochure brimming with fun activities and courses for the over 50s.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua Mayor, Kevin Winters, says he is sickened by news that yet another innocent child has apparently been the subject of violence in Rotorua.
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ROTORUA — The Environment Court has granted Rotorua District Council (RDC) approval to proceed with airport developments which could see direct flights from Australia landing in Rotorua by mid-2009.
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