Tairua sets up business association

Now to the beautiful Coromandel coast town of Tairua... Yesterday it was announced that the critical connection across the Coromandel Peninsula would be rebuilt by the end of March 2024. That's State Highway 25A - the road from Kopu to Hikuai. About 2-hundred metres of it washed away in the storm earlier this year. Tairua businesses have been struggling to cope without the highway bringing visitors and supplies... Now in a bid to speak up for more support, they've set up a business association. Local homeware store owner and spokesperson Peter Hunt spoke with Nathan Rarere.