Kaitaia
Town in the North Island, New ZealandWikipedia
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Sep 30, 2026
Levi ArmstrongGUEST
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Levi ArmstrongGUEST
Kaitāia down to, um, The Bluff.
Jordan RiverHOST
Ooh.
Levi ArmstrongGUEST
Yeah.
Emma HunterGUEST
And I think it might be helpful for your listeners to say that we have a range of programmes.
Emma HunterGUEST
We offer support from Kaitaia right down to Invercargill.
Emma HunterGUEST
And within that, we have eight residential services, which are about nine to 12 weeks in duration, and also a wide range of community harm reduction programmes.
Emma HunterGUEST
And just to Picking up on your report earlier, focus over the last year has really been increasing meth harm reduction programmes.
Frazer AndersonGUEST
I mean, as I say, there's 100,000 out of the 200,000 people in this area live within a $10 petrol radius, as I was looking at it, of Whangarei Hospital.
Frazer AndersonGUEST
The other 100,000 are anywhere from about 40, 45 minutes away, if you come from the lower part of the Bay of Islands region or through far, a bit directly west of Whangarei, which is called Ikaipara, up to If you're getting an ambulance down from Kaitaia Hospital to Whangarei Hospital, that's typically around three hours.
Frazer AndersonGUEST
And if you're getting an ambulance to Kaitaia Hospital, it can be anything from half an hour up to about two hours.
Frazer AndersonGUEST
If you look right at the very tip of the Northern Cape, right at the top of the handle of the cricket bat, that's about an hour and 40 minutes from there to Kaitaia, which is the nearest community hospital.
Frazer AndersonGUEST
Fortunately, not many people live all the way up there.
Frazer AndersonGUEST
It's very sparsely populated, very rural, very Māori.
Todd McClayGUEST
But you are seeing some mills close as others are opening and others some are growing.
Todd McClayGUEST
Look, I think up in Kaitāia in the very north, there's a way to go there.
Todd McClayGUEST
I suspect there's a likelihood that mill will survive in another form, another shape with greater investment.
Todd McClayGUEST
And the government's looking at that and working very, very hard because if that can happen, then those jobs are retained there.
Erin SpeedyHOST
those mills close down as well.
Erin SpeedyHOST
Kariui, Kaitaia, because of, you know, those high energy prices as well.
Erin SpeedyHOST
So there is kind of, you know, that the whole industry is being impacted by some things.
Todd McClayGUEST
Well, I mean, there are a lot of reasons why people are affected by energy prices.
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Back in
TeganHOST
the 90s, mine, the brothers' and sisters' wagging spot was down at Billiards in Kaitaia, which is up north.
TeganHOST
Then if the teachers roll up, we go over to the local bridge and hang out underneath.
TeganHOST
And then when the olds find out, oh gosh, it's Soros? Soros? What?
John CampbellHOST
Is that how it works?
Amy MacDonaldGUEST
Yeah, some of them come to Whangarei, depending on the location, but others are going to Kaitaia and Kaikohe.
Amy MacDonaldGUEST
So they're just linking up with the local township, enabling people to get to appointments.
Amy MacDonaldGUEST
get their groceries, and we get feedback.
Mark PercyGUEST
He hasn't just gone into the Wop Wops, he's gone to the Wop Wops and passed to what's on the other side of the Wop Wops.
Mark PercyGUEST
Like what's on the other side of Auckland? Whangarei, Kaitaia, like there's places on the other side of the bridge.
Mark PercyGUEST
But he had gone to the far side of the wilderness on his own, just him and his sheep.
Mark PercyGUEST
Remember, and he's been doing this for 40 years.
Mark PercyGUEST
He hasn't just gone into the Wop Wops, he's gone to the Wop Wops and passed to what's on the other side of the Wop Wops.
Mark PercyGUEST
Like what's on the other side of Auckland? Whangarei, Kaitaia, like there's places on the other side of the bridge.
Mark PercyGUEST
But he had gone to the far side of the wilderness on his own, just him and his sheep.
Mark PercyGUEST
Remember, and he's been doing this for 40 years.
Mike HoskingHOST
What are you going to do about the distribution network? Suddenly the distribution network gets doubled up.
Mike HoskingHOST
I mean, the truck that's going from Auckland to Kaitaia is
Christopher LuxonGUEST
going for everybody.
Christopher LuxonGUEST
Yeah, but the evidence is that the benefits also flow through to regional New Zealand because I've heard that regional argument in particular.
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