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Around the motu: Piers Fuller in Wairarapa

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South Wairarapa District Council offices in Martinborough.

South Wairarapa District Council offices in Martinborough. Photo: Emily Ireland

The decision remains in the balance on whether to toll motorists from Wairarapa to Palmerston North almost $9 per day to use the new highway. 

South Wairarapa District Council's Martinborough headquarters is being slammed as a place of damp and decay with leaks, fungus and airborne toxic mould. 

And South Wairarapa dog owners are on high alert after a series of suspicious poisonings in the area over several months.

Editor of the Wairarapa Times-Age, Piers Fuller.