{"id":612668,"date":"2026-09-26T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612668\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:58:19","slug":"hawkes-bay-police-called-over-frost-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612668\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke\u2019s Bay: Police called over frost helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>24 Sep, 2026 07:44 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people were so concerned by the sound of helicopters flying over Hawke\u2019s Bay early on Friday morning that they called the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesman said reports of the helicopters came in from Hillary Cres in Maraenui at 12.30am and Ulyatt Rd in Meeanee at 2.20am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         In both cases,<br \/>\n         police made inquiries and determined the noise was from helicopters working to keep frost off fruiting plants, the spokesman said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">It was a busy night for orchardists, with this time of year crucial for keeping vulnerable fruit from getting frost damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">MetService recorded the temperature in Hastings dropping to 0.5C on Friday morning, and 1.3C in Napier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 24 Sep, 2026 07:44 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1561,1559,15245,2245,17628,4999,36000,1976,27513,1304,111,43,139,69,1523,384,675,26660,1361,8229,3608],"class_list":["post-612668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bay","tag-called","tag-concerned","tag-early","tag-flying","tag-friday","tag-frost","tag-hawkes","tag-helicopters","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-people","tag-police","tag-sound","tag-that","tag-they","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612668","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=612668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}