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The Mahurangi Winter Festival of Lights will be held on July 1, the first Saturday of the school holidays. The event will run from 11am until 9pm, down on the wharf and with amusements and rides in Baxter Street.
The festival will be held on only one day this year, instead of over two weekends as in previous years. Shop and business owners are being encouraged to string lights along their frontages to bring the town to life.
Meanwhile, the Kowhai Festival Big Day Out will be held on Labour Weekend, October 21. One Mahurangi manager Murray Chapman says that Marketview Statistics show that during these festival days, hospitality businesses report an increase of 18 per cent in customer spending.
