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Engines rumbling for green machine
Greening Taupō’s 2026 planting season is in the starting blocks and ready for the green light this weekend.
Taupō Golf Club eyes a new era
In the last decade the Taupō Golf Club has thrown off the doldrums of the early 2000s when declining membership, a global financial crisis and a $1 million spend on fairway irrigation put its future in jeopardy.
Restoring the cloak of Tauhara
The lower slopes of Mt Tauhara is getting a lot aroha with hundreds of children planting 6000 trees as part of a huge restoration project.
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