Tararua District Council
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Tararua District is a predominantly rural area especially suitable for sheep, cattle, and dairy farming. The large size of the district (424,000 hectares) and the fact that there are several small urban areas included within it provide significant challenges in terms of service delivery.
MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A Community Outcomes Monitoring report measuring the expectations of local residents against a three year old action plan has put the Tararua district under its own spotlight.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The Town Centre Refurbishment project is now approaching Barraud St.
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DANNEVIRKE — If you live in Dannevirke and have noticed two rubbish trucks in the street instead of just one, don’t be surprised.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — New home builders must now be prepared for more stringent requirements to insulate their houses because of changes to the building code, council’s manager environmental services Mike Brown advises.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A drop in the volume of recycling is good news for Tararua council which earlier on had been soul searching on how to reduce its expenditure.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A drop in the volume of recycling is good news for Tararua council which earlier on had been soul searching on how to reduce its expenditure.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A snapshot of Tararua public opinion has endorsed the council’s staff performance, community buildings, community consultation and published information ranking them above the national average and a peer group of 34 rural councils.
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DANNEVIRKE — Ratepayers from across the Tararua District have responded well to the Lump Sum option for the Dannevirke Town Centre Refurbishment.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The council wants to include Norsewood in its inter town fibre optic project linking Eketahuna, Pahiatua ,Woodville and Dannevirke with Palmerston North - funding permitting.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — In a snapshot of examples ratepayers can expect building consent deposits, cemeteries and housing to be among the services affected.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Dog owners will notice changes over registration this year with requirements for more detail, microchipping of first time dogs and a ‘get tough’ stance for infringements.
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DANNEVIRKE — June can officially be called a winter month but the Dannevirke Town Centre upgrade project has been fortunate to have workable weather through all the recent weeks.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — In settling on the 2008/09 Annual Plan and rates, the council has recognised economic concerns in a special one-off decision.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Submissions to the Draft Annual Plan have been debated with recommendations to be finally adopted on June 11.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A worm farm, paper bricks and veggies were the catalyst for a small primary ‘Enviro’ School to scoop the pool in this year’s Tararua Trustpower Community Awards.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Rate increases and the rating system have dominated the 33 submissions received for this year’s Tararua district annual plan with more than half of the submitters opting to support their submission in person.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The closure of the PPCS Oringi meat plant is not only a blow to the staff but for the Tararua district, its Mayor Maureen Reynolds said yesterday.
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A closely contested New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series climaxes tomorrow at Riccarton Park with the final race of the four-race Series, the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m).
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DANNEVIRKE — Council is undertaking a project to scan and electronically store all its building consent records (‘packets’).
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Submissions are being sought for a Proposal to Establish a Council Controlled Organisation (CCO) for the Provision of Local Authority Shared Services.
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DANNEVIRKE — A Dannevirke ratepayer’s suggestion that a ‘lump sum’ payment could be an attractive rating option for the Dannevirke Town Centre Refurbishment Project is about to be put to the test.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Tararua council plans to get serious about energy conservation and sustainability in housing design when changes to the District Plan are made later in the year.
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DANNEVIRKE — Following a positive result from a random telephone survey the council has advised the Dannevirke Promotion and Development society that it can now proceed to the next step and reactivate the required resource consent process.
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PAHIATUA — Tree felling on Bernies Hill on the Pahiatua Track has removed a long time traffic hazard and will be good news for motorists.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Yes the grass is greener but with very few reserves farmers are still facing a critical feed shortage.
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PAHIATUA — The council is leaving no stone unturned in its quest for ‘R’ (Regional) funding for the Pahiatua Track and has now taken its message to Parliament.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A council decision to think ‘outside the square’ and look for groundwater sources in Tararua is heralding a new and more stable era for the district’s water supplies.
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DANNEVIRKE — With summer passing, the days shorter and the land still dry as a bone the Dannevirke CBD refurbishment has been making progress toward completion of the first third of the project.
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DANNEVIRKE — Eleven new jobs at the Dannevirke former Feltex plant now owned by Godfrey Hirst New Zealand Limited should be taken up by June, says the company’s general manager Tania Pauling.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Oil Prices Hit Home: As a major consumer of energy and oil for roading the council is in the grip of significantly escalating oil prices.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The council has adopted its 2008/09 Draft Annual Plan for public consultation and will call for submissions starting next week.
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EKETAHUNA — Following a successful six months trial, councillors have opted to continue with the Eketahuna Money Exchange service and review it in another 12 months.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — In a ‘good news’ move Tararua ratepayers can expect a districtwide rate increase of only 4% when the 2008/09 Draft Annual Plan is adopted on Wednesday.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The eastern side of Tararua district has been officially declared a drought area by Horizons Regional Council hitting farmers for the second consecutive year.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Tararua’s current lack of water is hampering the council’s ability to lift fire restrictions despite the more favourable indices reading and some recent rain.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Tararua District Council is calling for a change of attitude towards the allocation of water and its management.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Tararua council is undertaking a review of its rating policy but ratepayers should not expect quick fixes in the next financial year.
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DANNEVIRKE — As the refurbishment of the Dannevirke CBD continues residents are being reminded of the old adage, there is ‘no gain without pain’.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — With space still left in its current contract for 79 ‘Healthy Homes’ the council is now seeking more applications.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Sportsperson of the Year organisers have announced a new ‘volunteer’ award expanding the popular annual event from five categories to six.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The council is putting itself under scrutiny with a random survey to seek public feedback on services and issues of interest to residents.
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DANNEVIRKE — Children have been entertained and staff kept busy during this year’s summer reading programme.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A ‘new look’ Tararua Outdoors is to be held in March involving three weekends of activities.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Urban property owners with excessive long grass or other rank vegetation are required to clear it in order to avoid significant fire risk.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Saturday February 23 to Sunday March 2 2008 is Bike Wise Week.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Scoring an overall 96% in a national i-Site survey is a success story for team at the Tararua i-Site.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Police are attributing an incident free New Year at Akitio beach and in Dannevirke CBD to liquor bans imposed by Tararua District Council two years ago.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A total hosing ban is now in place in the Tararua district.
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DANNEVIRKE — As the New Year opens work has restarted on the next stage of the Town Centre Refurbishment.
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DANNEVIRKE — If farmers with long memories can think back to the severity of the 1977 drought then be warned.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Public willingness to recycle is good news for the district’s landfills with December’s monthly volume jumping to 64 tonnes, an increase of 24 tonnes from previous figures.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — The council is to provide a tribute book for Tararua residents to record their condolences to the family of Sir Edmund Hillary.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Tararua District Council has strong words for the government’s Rating Inquiry Panel saying it is completely “failing to grasp” issues surrounding rural affordability and roading subsidy inequalities.
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DANNEVIRKE — Work on the first section of the Dannevirke Town Centre refurbishment is nearly finished now although there is still work to do early in the New Year contract manager Julian McKean reports.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A cluster of funky purple tables each with a computer complete with Skype technology awaits visitors to all four Tararua libraries.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Big red bins will be on permanent location at Norsewood, Akitio and Pongaroa during the summer as the council extends its recycling facilities into the smaller communities.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Dannevirke’s liquor ban, now into its third summer has been welcomed by the town’s newly arrived senior sergeant of police.
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PAHIATUA — A tender to pipe Huxley drain in Pahiatua has been awarded to Infracon Tararua with work to start early in the New Year.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Tararua’s rapidly dropping river levels are prompting a council warning about water usage.
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DANNEVIRKE — Tararua mayor Maureen Reynolds is calling for some retailer support at the northern end of Dannevirke whilst the High St Refurbishment Project is in progress.
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WOODVILLE — A decision by the Horizons Regional Council hearings committee to grant a term of consent for discharge upgrades from the Woodville sewage treatment plant into the Mangaatua Stream until 31 March 2011 has pleased Tararua District Council manager district assets Stephen Taylor.
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DANNEVIRKE — As work progresses in lower High St Dannevirke, the town’s new look is coming closer with contractors Infracon Ltd now halfway through the first phase of the underground upgrade.
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WAIRARAPA — TAP (Technical Assistance Programme) is a government initiative to assist small scale (less than 5000) suppliers of drinking water to operate their supply, manage the risks and to make effective use of equipment.
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WAIRARAPA — As summer approaches so do the twin issues of overhanging trees and shrubs and overgrown sections.
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WAIRARAPA — Setting up house? Getting rid of an old bed or ‘fridge? Then Second Hand Sunday is the opportunity for you.
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WAIRARAPA — Last Friday’s balloon bedecked main streets in Tararua announced the nation’s official Push Play Day and the end of a busy month by Sport Tararua District Co-ordinator Pip Hubbard.
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WAIRARAPA — Small scale suppliers of drinking water will be interested in the government’s TAP (Technical Assistance Programme) designed to help operations involving fewer than 5000 people.
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WAIRARAPA — Tararua mayor Maureen Reynolds is indicating that a rates review will be high on the new council’s agenda but warns that the outcome may not be a case of “instant change.” The fourth term mayor says she is delighted to be re-elected and thanks the district’s citizens who have demonstrated their confidence in her.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — As the dust settles on the 2007 local body election results a frenzy of speculation has erupted regarding low voter turnout and the possible causes.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Changing rules concerning food for sale are in the pipeline but some diehard traditions like ‘ladies a plate please’ after a monthly meeting are still safe.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — A glance at the monthly tonnage of recyclables being disgorged by the big red bins dotted around Tararua is ample evidence that the district is eagerly grasping the opportunity to keep rubbish out of the landfills.
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DANNEVIRKE — Sewage, and phosphorus treatment in particular is now under the Tararua District Council spotlight as the implications of the Horizons Regional Council One Plan continue to bite.
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EKETAHUNA — With its launch now over the Eketahuna money exchange is ready for business and residents once again will have access to eftpos, money withdrawals, and banking deposits.
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