17 Apr 2025

Around the motu: John Freer in Coromandel

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 17 April 2025
Sugarloaf Wharf.

Sugarloaf Wharf. Photo: Google Maps

Hauraki Coromandel Peninsula has seen a major make-over of the regional tourism organisation, the Waikato’s largest project using provincial growth funding, the Sugarloaf Wharf development, has stalled, and Thames has been listed as having some of the highest petrol prices in the country - that could be changing.

John Freer is a CFM local news reporter, from the Coromandel Peninsula.