Napier businesses and locals are becoming increasingly worried about being safe in the city.
Police around the palm trees of Clive Square, just around the corner from the city s homeless outreach centre.
Photo: RNZ / Tom Kitchin
Central Napier may be picturesque - lined with art deco buildings and palm trees. But people in the city say the levels of insecurity are reaching an alarming level.
Homeless man Jeff often hangs around Clive Square, a central recreational spot in the city.
He explained why he spent time there. Well, the outreach centre s been open over there for the last 10 years and we ve been patronising that place, and it s in this vicinity so we sort of stuck around in this vicinity cause we don t want to travel too far. Too cold up the f ing beach and all the rest of it .
Autumn Fashion Comes to town
7 Apr, 2021 12:40 AM
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Napier Courier
Napier City CBD s Emerson Street will transform into a fashion runway this Saturday, April 10, with the annual Autumn Winter Fashion on Parade. With 2020 seeing the parade cancelled due to
Covid-19, this year we will see 24 Napier fashion stores showcase their winter collections. Emerson Street from TSB Bank to Glassons will be closed from 9am-3pm to through traffic. From well known brands like Cotton On, Max Fashions and Barkers, to little tots from Postie, we will
also see newcomers such as Garment and Shadow Cat who will be showing how upcycled clothes and preloved designer brands can work.
DIY Deco: Independent events ready to put on a show in Napier
18 Feb, 2021 01:19 AM
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While official Art Deco Festival events have been canned, independent musical events including The Dave Atkin Group gig are still going ahead. Photo / Supplied
While official Art Deco Festival events have been canned, independent musical events including The Dave Atkin Group gig are still going ahead. Photo / Supplied
Indie Deco, DIY Deco, Prohibition Weekend - whatever you want to call it, the unofficial party in Napier is still on for masses of festival fans.
The Art Deco Festival - and its near 300 events - will stay officially cancelled, but the trust that runs it is now throwing its support behind a raft of unofficial events that can go ahead under alert level 1 rules.
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 5:07 pm
Despite the Government’s announcement this afternoon
that Covid restrictions in Auckland and the rest of New
Zealand will drop to Level 2 and Level 1 respectively at
midnight, the Art Deco Festival remains
cancelled.
Chair of the Art Deco Trust, Barbara Arnott
said yesterday’s decision to cancel the Festival hasn’t
changed, and the Trust stands by making the decision ahead
of Government’s announcement on Covid alert level
restrictions today.
“We know people will
be asking why we couldn’t have waited till the Prime
Minister’s announcement late this afternoon. But the
reality is that the Festival involves hundreds of events and