Hawkes Bay Today
  • Hawke's Bay Today home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Havelock North
  • Central Hawke's Bay
  • Tararua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Dannevirke
  • Gisborne

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Hawkes Bay Today

Frasertown community wins fight to stop pokies moving to town

Gary Hamilton-Irvine
Multimedia journalist·Hawkes Bay Today·
25 Jul, 2024 02:12 AM2 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save
    Share this article
An application was made for 18 gaming machines to be moved to Frasertown Tavern.

An application was made for 18 gaming machines to be moved to Frasertown Tavern.

Members of a small Hawke’s Bay township have won a fight to stop pokie machines being opened at the local tavern.

Wairoa District Council (WDC) decided on Thursday to decline an application to move 18 gaming machines from Wairoa’s Ferry Hotel to the Frasertown Tavern.

Frasertown is located about 10 minutes’ drive north of Wairoa and that community does not have any gaming machines.

Long-term Frasertown resident Maria Cairns started an online petition last Friday to keep it that way, which gathered over 1100 online signatures in a matter of days. The petition was handed to Wairoa’s deputy mayor this week.

“I’m just over the moon that they have come to the right decision. I just think for our community this is what we needed,” Cairns said.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

“It means our future generations will not have easy access to pokie machines.

“They will still have access [in the likes of nearby Wairoa] but it will not be as easy as it would have been.”

She said she was a bit worried the decision may be appealed but she would continue to fight if that happened.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

The Ferry Hotel and the Frasertown Tavern are operated by the same owners.

The Ferry was badly flooded during Cyclone Gabrielle. As such, a recent application was made for its gaming licence to be moved to the Frasertown Tavern.

Wairoa District Council acting community services and development group manager Lauren Jones said the application to relocate 18 gaming machines to Frasertown Tavern had been declined.

“The Ferry is still being operated for accommodation, and the alcohol and food licences remain active,” she said.

“Council is not of the view that circumstances are beyond the control of the operator, to continue from the existing Ferry Hotel site.”

A Frasertown Tavern owner has been contacted for comment.

Gary Hamilton-Irvine is a Hawke’s Bay-based reporter who covers a range of news topics including business, councils, breaking news and cyclone recovery. He formerly worked at News Corp Australia.



Save
    Share this article

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Hawkes Bay Today

Police find huge cannabis operation inside building: 'It wasn't here three months ago'

11 Sep 03:24 AM
Hawkes Bay Today

Teen challenges Napier mayoral candidates at debate, saying youth ‘don’t feel welcome’

11 Sep 03:22 AM
Hawkes Bay Today

The quiet force giving hope to the Bay’s long-term unemployed

11 Sep 02:26 AM

Sponsored

Kiwi campaign keeps on giving

07 Sep 12:00 PM
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Police find huge cannabis operation inside building: 'It wasn't here three months ago'
Hawkes Bay Today

Police find huge cannabis operation inside building: 'It wasn't here three months ago'

Detective says landlords need to be wary of what their tenants are doing.

11 Sep 03:24 AM
Teen challenges Napier mayoral candidates at debate, saying youth ‘don’t feel welcome’
Hawkes Bay Today

Teen challenges Napier mayoral candidates at debate, saying youth ‘don’t feel welcome’

11 Sep 03:22 AM
The quiet force giving hope to the Bay’s long-term unemployed
Hawkes Bay Today

The quiet force giving hope to the Bay’s long-term unemployed

11 Sep 02:26 AM


Kiwi campaign keeps on giving
Sponsored

Kiwi campaign keeps on giving

07 Sep 12:00 PM
NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Hawke's Bay Today e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Hawke's Bay Today
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP