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19 December 2014 CROWN research institute Scion has won a four-year grant to investigate the benefits of industrial symbiosis related to wood processing and the energy sectors. Economic development officer Su Cammell told Kawerau District Council about the grant at a regulatory and services committee meeting on Tuesday. She said the research would explore how […]

Station wants to broadcast to Kawerau shoppers 19 December 2014 KAWERAU’S Galaxy Radio station has appealed to Kawerau District Council for an opportunity to broadcast around Jellicoe Court. Galaxy breakfast host and chief executive Grant Reid spoke at the council’s regulatory and services committee meeting on Tuesday. He said Galaxy had become part of the

Hillside hive location approved for Kawerau 29 December 2014 THE hill beside Kawerau’s transfer station is about to become a hive of insect activity now Kawerau District Council has granted consent to locate bees there. At a regulatory and services committee meeting on Tuesday, the council considered an application to move 30 beehives to a

A TENDER to upgrade the size and quality of Kawerau District Council’s security camera network will close in January. Councillors agreed to upgrade the town’s 13 cameras and add six new cameras in September. During a regulatory and services committee meeting last month the council heard how security cameras from Rotorua, Tauranga and Whakatane were

Kawerau opts for new shade sails 30 December 2014 KAWERAU District Council is taking legal action against the company that provided poor-performing shade sails for the town’s skate park. The council discussed the sails at a meeting on December 16 and decided to replace them while the legal case against the provider continued. Operations and

PLENTY of activities are on offer around Kawerau to fill in the last weeks of the summer holidays. Manna Support Services community development officer Bob Austin said January could be a difficult time for young people, especially after their families had returned to work. “The last two or three weeks before the new school year

Chipper to cope with felling 9 January 2015 INCREASED tree felling and thinning around Kawerau will be supported by a new chipping machine next year. Kawerau District Council agreed to buy a chipper at an estimated cost of $45,000 during a meeting on December 16. Operations and services manager Tom McDowall said that in 2014

Kawerau clubrooms on the move 14 January 2015 AFTER 30 years of housing Kawerau’s swimming club the two-storey clubrooms are leaving the pool complex to make way for a $700,000 upgrade. The building, which watches over the lane pool at the Maurie Kjar Memorial Swimming Pool Complex, opened in 1985 and preparations are under way

Kawerau clubrooms on the move 14 January 2015 AFTER 30 years of housing Kawerau’s swimming club the two-storey clubrooms are leaving the pool complex to make way for a $700,000 upgrade. The building, which watches over the lane pool at the Maurie Kjar Memorial Swimming Pool Complex, opened in 1985 and preparations are under way

Kawerau Incubate programme to run again in 2015 15 January 2015 A programme to help new business and social enterprise succeed and grow in Kawerau has been so well received by participants that the programme will run again in February 2015. Kawerau X Incubate was a 10 week programme that ran from October to December