Cash for Cyclone Gabrielle impacted, stranded ferry passengers & Pike River answers | nzherald.co.nz

Cash grants for farmers and growers' Cyclone Gabrielle recovery, stranded Cook Strait ferry passengers and borehole drilling resumes at Pike River in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines.

[vwwilson]

They should replace the bridges with bridges that can be raised in times of flooding to allow the debri to flow thru without causing any damage

[DanNZ]

How about no foreign aid this year and we spend it fixing our own country?

[upcyclebob]

Seems weather modification had a big part to play . Rob D on YouTube predicted this and shows why this happened

[andreawood]

I pray people also have good insurance and pray hugs and love to those families of people missing 💖

[Osamabintardin]

2k per hectare wouldn't even get half the gas needed for the machinery we'd have to hire to clear the silt and slash its not good enough

[drewjohnston]

Just sayn. If u legalized... Then such income can be used for stuff like this. They do it in Colorado js

[nyranstanton]

so lets give African nations 20 million to help with THEIR problems instead of our own..nice....When most of the issues in Africa are the cause of terrible leadership and corruption.

[Rebecca-iinq]

Let's not forget the red cross dollars being collected at every till.

[FrogInApot]

Narcissistic obese kiwis have destroyed the once beautiful country way before the cyclone tried to clean it out

[GordonWishart]

Banks don’t care about people only profit and the same with insurance companies.

[bronwynsmith]

I can't believe how much water is still around like wow😢 I hope they put big pumps in when they can rebuild structurally larher drain pipes huge tanks to hold excess water.Sirens in so when the water gets to a certain level people can start the pumps to reduce overflow of rivers😢💞

[willyd-adv]

Why are farmers getting yet more government money, surely they have insurance that'll be paying them for loses and damages.

[ravenouspakai]

Naw our beautiful Neo orchard allen rd, PAKOWHAI is gone my partner kept it 💯 he was proud of that orchard even I was proud on how beautiful he kept it he was always speaking high about his awesome workers and the work they all did together. Now history remains in memories. To all of our hawks bay whanau my heart and thoughts go out to all. Kia kaha.

[maigepresents]

Wait... so no infrastructure damage but a 250k bill for a dairy farmer? That literally makes no sense...

[mandoleenebando]

They shouldn't have to apply for anything it should be just given to them