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Whangārei Mayor Ken Couper would like to see the district's state of emergency lifted on Tuesday afternoon.

Emergency response leaders will on Tuesday be reviewing the district's state of emergency as its week-long tenure expires.

It was put in place from 4pm on Tuesday 20 January for seven days.

Couper said his inclination would be to lift the state of emergency, so that a sense of normality can start to return. But he said that was dependent on what emergency response leaders decided.

The state of emergency was brought due to the severe weather impacts on the north‑east coast - including Whangaruru, Ōakura and surrounding areas.

The area suffered huge damage in the wake of a weather bomb which brought more

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