This week on Te Pae, your big funky community radio show on 88.2Fm and streaming paekakariki.org.nz  (12noon and 6pm) daily we get the facts on Transmission Gully and its effect on Paekakariki in the second half of the show from David Low, chief executive of Leighton Contractors who are building the road, have poet Mary Jane Duffy in to read, hear from Paekakariki library. In the first half of the show its a special culture bunker edition with interviews with Raumati South filmmaker Michael Heath whose beautiful sensory film  A Small Life screens and another on painter Edith Collier screen at St Peters Hall and, from across the fence in Tarawa Street artist Carlos Wedde whose exhibition The Nummilosphere.

We will look to have a panel discussion on the gully’s effects on Paekakariki in the coming months