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Napier homeless shelter to open with $115,000 funding boost
Movie producer Dame Gaylene Preston (left) and Cath Norrie, the Napier night shelter project supporter who bought a rare book of the sketch work behind the movie Ruby and Rata in Napier on May 22. Photo / Doug Laing.
A pilot homeless night shelter could open in Napier by the end of this month with more than $115,000 guaranteed, just three months after its new trust was formed.
The biggest boost comes from $100,000 in two grants over the next two years from the Napier City Council, agreed after
