11 Dec 2025

Around the motu: Robin Martin in Taranaki

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 11 December 2025

Robin discusses the planned emptying of  Lake Rotomanu to work out how bad an investation of golden clams is, a funding boost for cafe that  is used by rough sleepers,  the ongoing row over cycleway barriers and a crazy batch of dog names.

Robin is RNZ's Taranaki reporter

A pile of gold clams of various different sizes. They are a yellow-brown colour, and vary from a few milimetres to several centimetres.

Gold clams, corbicula fluminea. Photo: Dr Michelle Melchior