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Whatatutu causeway — ‘wacko idea’ — washes away

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Te Kowhai Road residents in Whatatutu are again cut off, after a $200,000 causeway designed to replace a cyclone-damaged bridge washed away.

Resident Chris Hannah said she had effectively been “imprisoned” in Gisborne city, while her husband was stuck on the other side of the river.

She said the ford was “a completely wacko idea” and a “complete waste of money”.

“The river started...


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