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More than 9000 households are still without power more than a week on from devastating Cyclone Gabrielle.
Hawke’s Bay electricity company Unison says crews got most of Napier city back online yesterday.
It says it got started on work in Taradale yesterday afternoon, and aims to have power back on in Te Awa by tomorrow.
But isolated rural areas could take weeks to hook up again, though Unison says it has managed to restore power to 70,000 customers since Gabrielle struck last Monday.
In Tairāwhiti, more than 300 households are still without electricity. People in all cyclone-hit areas are being asked to conserve power where possible.
Eleven people have been confirmed killed in the cyclone.
To assist the recovery, applications for $25 million worth of grants are open to farmers and growers on the Ministry for Primary Industries’ website.
Water restrictions remain in Gisborne and Wairoa residents are still being told to boil their water.
More supplies arrived in Napier on Tuesday evening, with the arrival of HMNZS Canterbury loaded with Bailey bridges, generators, gas bottles, and emergency packs from Ngāi Tahu.
Elsewhere in the country , there has been a breakthrough in the Coromandel – trucks and trailers can now use State Highway 25.
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