Hastings residents will soon get the chance to hear from the six people who want to be the city's next mayor.
Hawke's Bay Today will next month host a debate among the candidates standing in the byelection for Mayor of Hastings, made necessary by Lawrence Yule's exit to stand successfully for the Tukituki parliamentary seat.
The debate, to be moderated by the newspaper's editor Andrew Austin, will be held at Karamu High School in Hastings at 6pm on Thursday, November 2.
Voting papers will go out then with the byelection closing on November 24.
Six candidates are running for mayor and all six will take part in the debate. They are acting mayor Sandra Hazlehurst, councillors Simon Nixon and Bayden Barber, Future Youth Party leader Allister Tosh, 19-year-old Waitawhara Tupaea (who is also standing in a Hastings council seat byelection) and Crownthorpe lemon orchardist Stuart Perry.