Tairāwhiti can be extremely proud of its response to the ShakeOut earthquake and tsunami exercise on Thursday morning, Minister of Emergency Management Mark Mitchell says.
Mitchell was at Gisborne’s Wainui Beach School for the nationwide hīkoi and, like everyone else, he completed the “drop, cover and hold” actions at 9.30am.
The Wainui school children got right into the exercise.
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