Advocate 21/9

  The COP 26 conference (the United Nations climate change conference, 26th conference of parties thus COP26) highlighted ways we woud see climate change. Significant floods and significant droughts feature and both could impact on this area. The Tongariro River Catchment”s last significant flood was 2004. After the floods of 1988 and 2004 it took […]

Advocate 21/8

An original member, and still a member, of the Advocates is Jock McNab and I write to acknowledge his contribution to this group and acknowledge his wider contribution to the Turangi and Tokaanu communities. Jock was born in 1921 in Taumarunui where his father was the  BNZ Bank Manager. The family moved, 1925, to Days […]