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Rotorua s mayor and two councillors have accused Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi of misinformation , with one councillor labelling his comments over a sewerage fault a political stunt .
Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi is accusing Rotorua Council of undertaking a patch up job on a sewerage fault.
Photo: New Zealand Herald / Mark Mitchell
However, Waititi says their comments are a classic deflection technique on the council s part .
Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick raised the issue of Waititi s comments in a Rotorua Lakes Council Operations and Monitoring Committee meeting on Thursday morning.
In an 11 April Māori Party press release titled Rotorua Council needs to clean its s t up , Waititi said he had attended a community hui in Ngāpuna where locals had spoken of physical and psychological suffering due to a sewerage fault which occurred on 29 March.
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The proposed changes - released to the public this morning - come as part of a draft Setting of Speed Limits Rule, which Minister of Transport Michael Wood said would mean 30 km/h speed zones outside urban schools, and a maximum of 60 km/h outside rural schools.
Urban schools could have a maximum speed limit of 40 km/h where appropriate , he said.
Late last year, following calls for a nationally standardised 40 km/h school zone, Wood told Local Democracy Reporting he didn t think a one-size-fits-all approach is right given the different needs of communities.
At the same time, Wood s National Party counterpart said some standardisation might make sense.
The fate of two seagull feathers and a souvenir mug hang in the balance, listed among items to be removed from Rotorua Museum s permanent collection.
Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa Rotorua Museum director Lizzie Marvelly.
Photo: Rotorua Daily Post / Andrew Warner via LDR
Rotorua Lakes Council s operations and monitoring committee will decide on Thursday whether or not to recommend to the council to permanently remove 36 items from the currently closed museum s collection.
The items include clothing and objects beyond repair or with no known connection to Rotorua, such as a 1960s milkshake machine, a dinghy, a bath, a vial of mercury and two seagull feathers.