{"id":84617,"date":"2025-10-17T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:02:07","slug":"northland-news-in-brief-new-childrens-book-takes-flight-in-mangawhai-mangamuka-slip-repair-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84617\/","title":{"rendered":"Northland news in brief: New children\u2019s book takes flight in Mangawhai; Mangamuka slip repair under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New classrooms<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Four Northland schools will receive new classrooms after the Government says it freed up $100m to reinvest in school property. Kerikeri High School, Kerikeri Primary School and Te Kura Kaupapa M\u0101ori o Kaikohe will receive four classrooms each, and a satellite classroom for Blomfield Specialist School will be delivered to Oromahoe School.<\/p>\n<p>Coopers Beach Lotto winner<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Four Square Coopers Beach sold a $32,045 winning Lotto ticket. The ticket was one of 10 nationwide to win Lotto Second Division on Wednesday. Because of T20 cricket coverage on TVNZ 1, Saturday\u2019s live Lotto draw will be aired on TVNZ 2 at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>Whang\u0101rei roadworks<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Four Whang\u0101rei roadwork asphalting sites are scheduled: SH1\/Central Ave (six nights from Oct 19, excluding Labour weekend), Kensington Sports Park (Nov), Cheviot St to Fourth Ave (Dec), and Russell Rd (one night in Jan). Work runs 9pm\u20135am, Sunday to Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>SH1 overnight closure<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">SH1 will be closed overnight between Portland Rd and the SH15 roundabout for seven nights from October 20, excluding Labour weekend. The alternate route is along Loop Rd\/SH15. The closure is for asphalting on the southbound lanes as part of the Loop Road Safety Improvements project.<\/p>\n<p>Simply the best<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">TINA The Ultimate Tribute to the Queen of Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll is on November 3 at Forum North, Whang\u0101rei. Tickets are available at Eventfinda.co.nz.<\/p>\n<p>Scoot the Loop<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Multiple Sclerosis Northland is inviting people to Scoot the Loop on November 2 at 10.30am. Walk, bike, scoot or wheelchair your way around the Town Basin Loop Walkway. Wear orange to show support for locals with MS. Meeting point is the sundial at the Quay.<\/p>\n<p>Pink Ribbon appeal<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Breast Cancer Foundation NZ\u2019s Pink Ribbon Street Appeal is on tomorrow. More than 500 Northlanders will be out with buckets to collect donations for breast cancer research, education and patient support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New classrooms Four Northland schools will receive new classrooms after the Government says it freed up $100m to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64581,64580,19976,2108,489,64570,9632,64582,4749,1744,1389,34692,24116,13574,156,64574,70,64579,64573,64577,78,1743,64571,55315,28205,117,111,43,139,1536,1067,69,49541,3227,64578,42917,64576,64572,6639,1120,64575,28050,9438,8238,14047,1533,102,13632,80],"class_list":["post-84617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-530pm","tag-bennetts","tag-birds","tag-book","tag-books","tag-brief","tag-celebrates","tag-charitable","tag-childrens","tag-collaboration","tag-conservation","tag-creek","tag-duck","tag-efforts","tag-entertainment","tag-fairy","tag-flight","tag-gibbs","tag-hungry","tag-illustrated","tag-in","tag-launched","tag-mangamuka","tag-mangawhai","tag-monique","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-press","tag-published","tag-rebecca","tag-repair","tag-rowe","tag-slip","tag-survival","tag-takes","tag-tern","tag-thursday","tag-trust","tag-under","tag-way","tag-will","tag-with","tag-written","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84617","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=84617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}