What is it with Woodlands Rd? A few weeks ago a Huge Sinkhole appeared out of nowhere, and yesterday, right outside our house, power lines came down. We’d just finished a cuppa after lunch when a loud crunching noise was heard, followed by the alarm bleeping to say the power was out. Some roadworkers had

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Good to see in Rural Delivery (May 25) that the Te Hoe hall has received a grant of $35,000 from Transpower.

There’s been a lot of aerial activity across the district over the last couple of days, with helicopters toing and froing and carrying strange cargos on the end of long cables. Not far down Woodlands Rd, Gordonton, N8N came across a team of these fellows in what looked like spacesuits.  These are, we understand, Faraday

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