February 2018

River runners power through 15 April 2015 AN open women’s team from Auckland University Canoe Club compete at the national rafting selection races in Kawerau on Saturday. The event included night races, where floodlights were set up along the banks of the Tarawera River. All winning teams will represent New Zealand at the World Rafting  […]

17 April 2015 KAWERAU’S library experienced a quieter March this year with only 6854 visitors, a drop from 8359 visitors in the same month last year. During a Kawerau District Council meeting on Tuesday, finance and corporate services manager Peter Christophers cited the town’s sixtieth anniversary for the high 2014 number. But since the start

New philanthropic foundation to launch 17 April 2015 Sir Stephen Tindall, Warehouse founder THE Warehouse founder Sir Stephen Tindall will speak at the launch of a new foundation aiming to financially support community initiatives in the Eastern Bay. The Eastern Bay Community Foundation is holding its official launch on Tuesday, April 21, at an invite-only

Kawerau boxers hit Tauranga 22 April 2015 Kawerau boxers hit Tauranga TWO Kawerau boxers took part in a TGA Box Professional Corporate Boxing event on Saturday. Coach Warwick Godfery said the pair from Kawerau Boxing Club competed on the undercard for the night’s main event at the QE II Event Centre in front of 600

Exterior of 100 MW geothermal power plant at Kawerau, New Zealand. Credit: Rjglewis/Wikimedia Commons “We are now the fifth largest geothermal power generator in the world,” he said. New Zealand produces 79.9 percent of their electricity from renewable energy resources, and Bridges explained that the renewables sector worldwide is expected to reach $7 trillion in

22 April 2015 MEMORIES: The arrival of Air Chathams’s vintage Douglas DC3 at Whakatane Airport this weekend will ignite the memories of older Eastern Bay residents. Back in November 1968 a crowd of 2000 gathered at the airport on a Sunday afternoon to farewell the National Airways Corporation (NAC) DC3 that had been servicing the region.

The Kawerau King of the Mountain is enriched with a 60 year history of intrepid mountain runners and has stamped itself in New Zealand as one of the must do ultimate challenges. With the diamond jubilee taking place in 2015 the race organisers expect the race to reach maximum numbers before race day.  Maximum numbers

Labours education MP hits region 28 April 2015 REGIONAL TOUR: Labour MP Chris Hipkins was in the Eastern Bay on Wednesday talking with teachers. EASTERN Bay teachers had the ear of Labour’s education spokesman Chris Hipkins for a few hours on Wednesday. The MP for Rimutaka was in the area as part of a “reconnecting

Whakatane business secures honey deal 28 April 2015 SWEET DEAL: Jahn Iseri, Sophia Lim, Max Stowers and Judy Law at Thornton Road bottling plant Ora Honey. Photo Troy Baker D1985-05 A SINGAPOREAN business – Honey House – has signed an agreement with a Whakatane company to buy an initial consignment of honey. Honey House has

Kawerau say no to Frankton tyres 29 April 2015 Efforts to remove 150,000 old tyres dumped at a Frankton depot in Hamilton have struck complications, as another council tries to block the tyres coming into its district. City council ratepayers have been lumped with a $260,000 clean-up bill after a Hamilton business, tasked with disposing