The site of the proposed 80-metre Ruataniwha Dam, over the Makaroro River.
A small group of Wairoa residents met tonight to discuss the Ruataniwha dam.
Held at the town's Gaiety Theatre, the group huddled up the front of the cinema to debate the water storage scheme to participate in the third in the series of four meetings.
Not one councillor turned up
from the Wairoa District Council, with the District's May Craig Little currently in Dunedin.
Wairoa's regional councillor and council chairman, Fenton Wilson, turned up 20 minutes late.
At the start of the forum those ratepayers in attendance gave the floor to Mr Wilson's colleagues - Tom Belford, Peter Beaven, Rex Graham.
