{"id":146321,"date":"2025-11-21T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146321\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:34:08","slug":"whangarei-coast-rahui-to-be-scaled-back-from-saturday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146321\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei coast r\u0101hui to be scaled back from Saturday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ng\u0101ti Koror\u0101, the wider hap\u016b of Whang\u0101rei Terenga Par\u0101oa and Te Waiariki, announced today they had met to consider the r\u0101hui.<\/p>\n

They decided the r\u0101hui would last until 6pm on Saturday, when it would change to a scaled back area.<\/p>\n

From then on, the r\u0101hui would cover P\u0101 Harakeke (also known as Goat Island found at the southern end of Ngunguru Bay) to Toka Whakapiripiri (also known as the northern rocks of Kauri Mountain Beach) and extends 500m offshore.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe scaled down r\u0101hui will reach from Goat Island to Kauri Mountain Beach from 6pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n

People should refrain from swimming, boating and collecting seafood from the area until the r\u0101hui ends on November 28 at 6pm.<\/p>\n

They welcomed anyone keen to help the \u201clast stages\u201d of the search to report to Sergeant Paul Overton at the field base on Mahanga Rd, Pat\u0101ua South.<\/p>\n

Police, Coastguard and the Royal New Zealand Navy have undertaken extensive searches of the area since Friday.<\/p>\n

Police announced on Tuesday the search would be scaled back<\/a> but Auckland Coastguard Air Patrol continued with an aerial search that day. <\/p>\n

Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ng\u0101ti Koror\u0101, the wider hap\u016b of Whang\u0101rei Terenga Par\u0101oa and Te Waiariki, announced today they had met to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,12635,1863,5195,11586,9191,19555,3087,71,42,3242,43,39427,1534,98226,61,40,38,41,39,11787,1315,19054,1869,1533],"class_list":["post-146321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-area","tag-back","tag-be","tag-coast","tag-coastal","tag-evening","tag-fishing","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-large","tag-news","tag-rhui","tag-saturday","tag-scaled","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tragic","tag-trip","tag-turned","tag-whangrei","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}