File photo. Big swells crash onto State Highway 11 in Paihia on 17 April 2025. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf
About 25 Far North households are still waiting for their power to be restored after last week's ex-tropical Cyclone Tam.
Lines company Top Energy said it had hoped to restore power to remote Orokawa Bay, near Russell in the Bay of Islands, on Monday night.
However, it was now expected the area would remain without power at least until Thursday, because replacement poles would have to be flown in by helicopter.
The only other remaining outages in the Far North were limited to one or two homes in remote areas such as the Wekaweka Valley, near Waipoua Forest.
In the Whangārei and Kaipara districts, lines company Northpower said it had completed the last 12 repairs to storm-damaged lines on Sunday evening.
At the peak of the cyclone, more than 24,000 homes and businesses were without power across Northland.
It was the region's biggest outage since a pylon north of Auckland was accidentally topped during maintenance work in June last year.
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