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GITI Tyres Big Test - High and Mighty

For North Islanders it’s been the big wet. 

Summer events have been cancelled, highways blocked and even washed away. City streets and buildings flooded.

The rain in the north pre-dates the soggy summertime headlines. Many parts of the country also had an unusually wet winter and forestry operations in some remote regions experienced significant difficulties in access and operation.

The ne...

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