Cyclone Gabrielle: Wairoa orchard's first apple harvest donated to recovery
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"Just made sense for us as part of lifting the spirits and the wairua of the community".
It is the first apple harvest from a pioneering Māori-owned venture in Wairoa.
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Rangatahi cadets have began harvesting the first apple crop from a Māori joint venture orchard in Wairoa today — and the first fruits will go to the community Pātaka, a distribution hub set up to support whānau after Cyclone Gabrielle. The ...
An iwi organisation says Wairoa has ready-to-go projects that could be accelerated to quickly get people back into homes.