Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua

Kelly has a heartwarming story from an anonymous local businessman who has paid for a new play ground for the Rotorua Seventh-day Adventist School on Fenton St. The street is at the core of emergency housing in city. Also the sentencing of a former prison officer for her role in cocaine trafficking. It's crunch time for Rotorua residents as the belts need tightening to avoid a massive rate increase. Tania Tapsell won the Rotorua mayoralty campaigning on "stop the spend" so the axe is swinging to save ratepayers' money. And Rotorua has fareweled Netball legend Taini Jamison who died last month, aged 95. She took the Silver Ferns to their first world title at the 1967 Netball World cup.