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Wairoa counting on slice of $100m to ‘ensure all whanau are safe in their beds at night’

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After two cyclones, 35 years apart, devastated Wairoa, plans are finally being laid to stop the worst from happening again.

Floodwaters ripped through Wairoa homes, businesses and farms during Cyclone Bola in 1988, and again three months ago during Cyclone Gabrielle.

Warnings have been sounded for decades but there has been no action. The town remains exposed without a flood protection scheme to...


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