8 Jul 2020

Waitomo small businesses struggling to survive

From Checkpoint, 5:27 pm on 8 July 2020

Small businesses in the tourist town of Waitomo are crying foul over big government handouts being passed on to larger operators - while they struggle to survive. Discover Waitomo, one of the town's biggest operators, has received four million dollars in Government help to get it through the coming months. But they're not the only ones doing it tough, and smaller players say need help with funds too. Reporter Nick Truebridge and cameraman Nick Monro went to see how Waitomo's businesses are faring.