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Local Focus: Rates, roads and water critical for Mounties

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Mount and Papamoa Councillor, Steve Morris talks election priorities. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Steve Morris, Tauranga City councillor for the Mount and Pāpāmoa, talks to Local Focus about how rates, roading and water will be his main campaign platforms in the upcoming local body elections.

"It's my view that we need to do everything we can to make sure Tauranga doesn't become a mini Auckland," Morris said.

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