Turnout to election meeting disappointsMURRAY WILSON/STUFF Political apathy was alive and well in Taihape on Friday, when only about 20 people turned up to a candidate's meeting. McKelvie's election hoardings dot the landscape throughout the region's rolling beef and sheep country hills. Less talk of regions, more about small towns, would be a good thing also, Fannin said. By that she means Rangitikei is populated by scattered small towns whose needs are different, so lumping them together in a "Manawatu-Whanganui region" obscures more than it reveals. It was a theme that ran through some of the questions raised at the meeting in a town where young people leave to better themselves and often don't come back.

Source: Stuff August 27, 2017 02:03 UTC