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Gig Information Welcome to Folk Stack, Taranaki’s boutique mini-fest that celebrates original music in a peace-loving folky vibe. Held off the beaten track in relaxed venues this twilight gathering presents a fourstack of Taranaki-based acts each with a contemporary take on folk – the peoples music. Come soak up the vibe, warm your hippie heart and give peace another chance! There are two Folk Stack shows over the same weekend at the end of January 2021. Folk Stack Inglewood: Saturday 30 January we fire up this mini-fest at The Soundshed on a private property near Inglewood. https://www.facebook.com/events/727380524793904 Folk Stack Ohawe Beach: Sunday 31 January Folk Stack plays again at Ohawe Beach in South Taranaki - details below. ....
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Fonterra blames valve for spilling 170,000 litres of milk into Tasman sea 28 Jan, 2021 09:12 PM 4 minutes to read RNZ Fonterra is blaming an open valve for a spill of 170,000 litres of skim milk into the Tasman Sea from its Whareroa plant in Taranaki. The leak left globules of fat dispersed along the foreshore of Ōhāwe and Waihi beaches, near Hāwera. In a similar mishap in 2008, the dairy giant spilt 110,000 litres of skim milk into the ocean from the same plant. Scum on the beach in Taranaki from skim milk discharged in September 2008. Photo / RNZ Fonterra s general manager for lower North Island operations, Tony MacLean, said the November fault caused milk to overwhelm the plant s wastewater system. ....
A valve on a pipe that we transfer milk through opened, releasing milk into the waste water drain instead of it reaching its intended location of another milk silo. As soon as we became aware of the leak, we stopped the transfer of the milk. However our current waste water system could not cope with the unexpected large volume so the milk overflowed into our ocean outfall. The Taranaki Regional Council and iwi were notified immediately. Maclean said skim milk was soluble in water and an inspection of the outfall shortly after the spill showed no milk in the sea. However, Fonterra staff were sent to remove visible fat deposits from the Ohawe and Waihi beaches. ....
123rf Judge Chris Sygrove sentenced Wiremu Ripene Erueti-Brown to 10 months of supervision and ordered him to pay each of his four victims $500 reparation when he appeared in the New Plymouth District Court on Monday. (File photo) Two passengers who were injured when their driver crashed while more than twice the legal alcohol limit say they will never again get in a vehicle with someone who has been drinking, a court heard. Wiremu Ripene Erueti-Brown appeared before Judge Chris Sygrove in the New Plymouth District Court on Monday for sentencing on two charges of causing injury while driving with excess blood-alcohol, and one each of assault and assault with a blunt instrument. ....