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The Gore District Council is made up of 11 Councillors and a Mayor. The Mayor is elected district-wide. Here you can find out how to contact your councillor and the Code of Conduct they work by.

This is where you will find information about how the Council works, our meetings and agendas, and the management team.

Here you will find out all about our youth council, its meetings and what it does during the year.

A good chinwag has always been at the heart of community. We recognise this and seek to revive the art of conversation with the introduction of a new community digital newsletter, ChinWag. It will replace our monthly Noticeboard page and the Hokonui Herald.

Road conditions, tenders and all the latest public notices can be found here

Find out about your rates, rates rebates and payment options as well as search our properties database.

This is where you can find information about:

Here you will find information about drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and trade waste. There are also details about Gore's main water supply Cooper's Wells.

You will find information about such things as special licences, manager's certificates, fees & charges and district licensing committees here.

You will find information about keeping animals in urban areas, dog control, being a responsible dog owner and dog registration obligations here

You will find information about getting a building consent, accessing building forms, fence and boundary rules, LIM reports and Restricted Building Work here

You will information here about the District's six cemeteries and burial costs.

You will find information here about the District Plan, resource consents and air quality.

Here you will find information about trees, long grass and overhanging foliage, and noise control.

Here you will find information about road conditions, road safety and our footpaths.

This is where you can find information about:

MLT Event Centre
James Cumming Wing
Mataura Community Centre
Community Halls

In this section you will find information about our award winning public gardens, sports grounds, playgrounds, walkways and cycleways, and all things outdoors.

You will information here about the District's six cemeteries and burial costs.

With a thriving arts and heritage department, these pages have details about our key attractions in Gore, Mataura and Mandeville.

You will find information here on our library services, catalogue and regular features at Gore and Mataura.

A full list of our facilities and their opening hours is available here.

Documents & Forms

A good chinwag has always been at the heart of community. We recognise this and seek to revive the art of conversation with the introduction of a new community digital newsletter, ChinWag. It will replace our monthly Noticeboard page and the Hokonui Herald.

The Council likes to make things easy for our customers and promotes direct debit payments for rates. Here you will find information about this and other payment options we have for our many services.

Whether it's our cemeteries database, properties in the District, library catalogue or events calendar, you will find the link here.

Our District

What to Do

As the Rural City Living brand suggests, the Gore District has all the attractions of the country with all the amenities and thriving arts scene of a city.

You can go

fishing on a world class brown trout river
flying in a Tiger Moth
fossicking among native treasures, either work by leading New Zealand artists or native flora and fauna

Gore is also one of the few towns to still use its original Kerridge Odeon movie theatre. The SBS St James Theatre has been extensively refurbished over the years and has two auditoriums for screening movies. It is also the main venue for stage shows and hosts everything from the New Zealand Royal Ballet to local primary school productions. For more information go to the SBS St James Theatre website.

For those looking for some outdoor pursuits, there is plenty to do throughout the District. This includes the privately run outdoor adventure park, Camp Columba. This is situated 15km north of Gore, just off State Highway 1 in Pukerau. It has accommodation facilities and adventure activities to cater for groups from 10-180 people.

A Christian camp, Camp Columba was opened in 1957 as the permanent home for the Mataura District Bible Class Easter Camp. Since then it has been developed to offer some of the best adventure facilities in the south.

School camps, churches and community groups use the site throughout the year. The camp also runs its own holiday camps during summer and school holidays. For more information visit www.campcolumba.org.nz.

To find out more about what's going on or coming up in the Gore District, just talk to our friendly staff at the Gore Visitor Information Centre (phone 03 203 9288), check out our Events calendar, or go to www.gorenz.com.

Gore District Council 29 Bowler Avenue Gore P: 03 209 0330 E: info@goredc.govt.nz