Mayor gets in behind public exercise area for dogs

A long-running debate about whether Hawera should have a public dog exercise area on unused council land has become a dogfight, and South Taranaki Mayor Mary Bourke is barking the loudest.

She rose in the public forum, before a meeting of the environment and hearings committee on Wednesday, to voice her opinion that the High Rd site must become an exercise area. "And if you don't make what I think is the right decision, I'll have another crack when it comes before council on August 21." MORE>>