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Supplied Marcus Shenker and Harri Jensen s home in Westport was flooded for the second time in three years. Roche said the town’s recovery would take months, but tradespeople from out of town had already moved in to help local contractors with repair jobs. All district council staff were given Friday afternoon off to rest after their mammoth effort since the floods, she said. There had been $200,000 in public donations to the Buller Mayoral Relief Fund. The free rubbish collection service had been extended until Sunday The NZ Defence Force said its personnel had removed more than 1000 tonnes of flood-related waste from Westport homes so far. ....
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 Meecham An Army Unimog transports people from Snodgrass Rd and the Orowaiti River at Westport during a state of emergency, which has been called in the West Coast town due to flooding. ....
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Brook Sabin/Stuff Some West Coasters are calling the policy a “land grab”, which will lock up land and prevent any development. (File photo) Mayor Jamie Cleine and deputy Sharon Roche are also members of the Te Tai O Poutini Plan Committee responsible for writing a one district plan for the region. The pair did not vote with the committee when it decided to reject a report on the issue which included a map of potential SNAs. They wrote to Shaw and Nanaia Mahuta to call for open dialogue and compensation for West Coasters. The report showed the majority of the native vegetation on the West Coast was a potential SNA, the pair said. The issue was causing a “great deal of anxiety”, they said. ....
The new SNA map captures 95 per cent of all private land on the West Coast, according to Westland Mayor Bruce Smith. It also includes DOC stewardship land, which will skew the independent evaluation of that land that s supposed to be getting under way, Smith told the meeting. We are now up to 91.5 per cent of Westland controlled by DOC or other protection . we should not receive this report - it takes away property rights without consent. Māori TV Tāmati Tiananga of Te Ao Mārama speaks with Kuia Hine Puru, daughter of the famous mana wahine, and kuia from Te Tai Tokerau, Māori rights activist Dame Whina Cooper. ....