Kāwhia forest owners say they will hold a public meeting to discuss the 10-15 logging trucks a day entering and leaving the township during logging of the forest between the town and the hotwater beach.
Logging started on Monday. Tainui Kāwhia Incorporation (TKI) is a whānau owned and operated business that owns the 1000-hectare forest estate.
The forest was established in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an environmental and community protection project to prevent the large sand dune encroaching on Kāwhia.
The first harvest took place in the 1990s and the second cut is now underway.
The public meeting, at a date still to be set, will discuss logging truck movements.
