Attending to the needs of the younger members of its population is all too often overlooked by local and national governments around the world. In the local case of youth and city councils, this appears to certainly be one thing Hastings does better than Napier.
I was a member of the “Napier City Council Youth Forum” in 1995 – a collection of senior students from all Napier’s High Schools and EIT. We got together once a month to discuss the issues facing
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Some New Zealand bays are full of islands,
Others are plentiful.
But no bay has more color than Hawke’s Bay!
It should come as no surprise, from a place whose rugby team wears the opposite spectrums of magpie black and white.
Majestic Hawke Bay ocean hues: turquoise to navy, cold, hard grays to soft, saline foamy whites.
The lush, fruitful Heretaunga Plains – braeburn red and packham green.
Vineyard covered hills, bleached chardonnay by the summer sun, slowly turning pinot noir in the long evening light.
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