10 May 2023

Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 10 May 2023
Rotorua Seventh Day Adventist School has a new playground. (l-r) Princpal Lanea Strickland, Zoey Wikiringi 12, Murray Robinson, Victoria Finch, Dante Temara 12, Mike Heard, and Roger Marshall.  01 May 2023 The Daily Post Photo / Andrew Warner
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Rotorua Seventh Day Adventist School has a new playground. (l-r) Princpal Lanea Strickland, Zoey Wikiringi 12, Murray Robinson, Victoria Finch, Dante Temara 12, Mike Heard, and Roger Marshall. 01 May 2023 The Daily Post Photo / Andrew Warner RGP 04May23 - Photo: Andrew Warner

Kelly has a heartwarming story from an anonymous local businessman who has paid for a new play ground for the Rotorua Seventh-Day Adventist School on Fenton St. 

The street is at the core of emergency housing in city.

Also the sentencing of a former prison officer for their role in cocaine trafficking.  

It's crunch time for Rotorua residents as the belts need tightening to avoid a massive rate increase.

Tania Tapsell won the Rotorua mayoralty campaigning on "stop the spend" so the axe is swinging to save ratepayers' money.

And Rotorua has fareweled Netball legend Taini Jamison who died last month, aged 95. She took the Silver Ferns to their first world title at the 1967 Netball World cup