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About 100 people crowded into the Whakatāne District Council chambers on Wednesday in a show of support for the restoration of Ōhope Beach's iconic West End walkway.

A second meeting room with video and audio links to the chambers was opened to accommodate supporters of Austin Oliver and Angus Robson's proposal to allow volunteers to restore the track.

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Four years after the section of Ngā Tapuwae o Toi walkway between Otarawairere Bay and, West End, Ōhope, was closed by slips, the track around a steep, rocky point providing one of two access points to the secluded Otarawairere Bay remains closed.

Mr Oliver and Mr Robson told Local Democracy Report

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