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Time to tidy the town THE tide has gone out, so to speak, on Te Kūiti’s picturesque, through-the-town river. Revealed (you can’t see the riverbed) less pollution and it seems local authorities use the facility to store their ubiquitous orange road cones. The writer counted a dozen or so there on his daily dog walks. Also, it seems local authorities do not possess an admittedly very expensive kerb/gutter cleaning truck, with lots of grass and rubbish cluttering town streets and gratings. Maybe adapt a rotary hand-pushed digger, or buy a second-hand gutter/kerb vehicle? A Boulanger Te Kūiti

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