Scott Mathias

Months of hurried consultation and council work on the future shape of local government have ended, for now, with the Government putting its Head Start council reform process on hold until after the general election.

Tamahere avocados have been decimated by Jackfrost as locals count the cost of one of the harsher runs of winter frosts experienced in recent years, with some trees dropping virtually their entire crop and others left with brown, frost-burnt foliage just weeks before spring flowering.

Growing traffic pressure, the stalled Southern Links project, development around Tamahere and questions over Council spending dominated discussion at the August meeting of the Tamahere Community Committee