Animated video showing what the Manawatū Gorge route replacement might look like. Commissioners are two days into three weeks' of hearings in Palmerston North into Te Ahu a Tūranga​, the proposed Manawatū Gorge replacement highway. SUPPLIED Ngātii Kahungunu ki Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua Trust chairman Hayden Hape is calling for co-operation over the Manawatū Gorge replacement road. SUPPLIED The road through the Manawatū Gorge has been closed because of landslips since April 2017. Hape said Ngātii Kahungunu ki Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua had first right of refusal over the land as part of its Treaty of Waitangi settlement claim.

Source: Stuff March 26, 2019 01:52 UTC