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Buller Health evacuated 11 patients last night to Club Buller in Queen Street. An additional six patients were accommodated in a makeshift ward at Club Buller and some will be transferred to Te Nīkau Hospital in Greymouth today. All have settled in to their new surroundings. Staff report that patients adapted to sleeping on mattresses on the floor and were enjoying porridge and toast for breakfast this morning. Kitchen staff from Buller Health are using the facilities at Club Buller and are ab...

Many of the hardest hit streets were those with Kāinga Ora homes, he said. Buller emergency operations centre controller Bob Dickson said building assessors were going through homes from Sunday afternoon to determine which were still habitable. People were resilient, but support would be needed long-term. “Were looking at many, many months [of work] this is a big, large-scale event.” Faafoi said the Government would provide $300,000 to the Buller District Councils mayoral fund and $1...

A Westreef employee said houses had been inundated with water, and there were “more than likely” people still over there. Buller deputy mayor Sharon Roche said a helicopter and a rescue boat evacuated a group of farmers stranded by floodwaters in the Nine Mile area, south of Westport, at about 1pm. She said Army Unimogs had to be sent to rescue people in the Snodgrass Rd area of Westport who had returned to their homes on Saturday morning after being evacuated on Friday night. Peter Meec...

It wasnt until New Zealand Firsts Shane Jones came along with his $3b fund the following year that an application for the full $9.36m was lodged with the Government. Niederer said the trust quickly got to work securing designs, resource consents and landowner access. It hired a project manager and, despite a delay caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, the first section – from Westport to Carters Beach – opened in December to much fanfare.  Jules Anderson The opening of the Kawatiri Coa...

Former Westport site to be gradually redeveloped 31 December 2020 A group of Auckland investors that bought the former Holcim Wesport plant and land in the west coast of New Zealand have announced that local residents will have input on how the land is developed going forwards, as a masterplan is formulated.  The Westport plant closed in 2016 with the loss of 105 jobs. The land includes 10 houses, a quarry and 200ha of land suitable for dairy farming, most of which has been sol...