30 Oct 2025

Around the motu: Kelly Makiha from the Rotorua Daily Post

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 30 October 2025
Image of burnt out interiors of  the Whakarewarewa rugby clubrooms, including pool table with inserts of  damaged  prized Tai Mitchell Shield and the Rotorua Rugby Sub Union Senior Championship Banner.

A fire has destroyed the Whakarewarewa rugby clubrooms and damaged the prized Tai Mitchell Shield and the Rotorua Rugby Sub Union Senior Championship Banner. Photo: Supplied

Kelly reports on the fire that destroyed  an historic rugby club, a reward is offered for a missing local teacher, manslaughter charges four years after the disappearance of a local man and a local golfing legend.

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