Regional Wrap goes to Hikurangi
It's a "one coffee one pub" kind of town, says Craig Cooper, who with his partner runs a surprising retail and culture enterprise in the town called
Hiku
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As the t-shirts they've produced says, they specialise in "Art music and cool shit."
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