Essential services - the latest

• Dairies to stay open, with “one-in one-out” rule

• Food delivery prohibited, except meals on wheels and delivery of food not pre-cooked

• Liquor stores closed, unless within a Licensing Trust Area and with “one-in one-out” rule

• Self-service laundries can stay open, two-metre physical distancing to be enforced

• Retirement villages included as an essential service

• The Warehouse to close stores to the public

• Bunnings, Placemakers, Mitre 10 and other retailers essential to the supply chain for building and construction can stay open to trade customers for essential purposes only

• The Tiwai Point smelter exempt from closure

• NZ Steel shut down in a way that allows for production to recommence easily

• Pulp and paper plants to shut down non-essential elements in a way that allows for production to recommence easily while maintaining essential production

• Methanex to remain in production, but at a scale consistent with stability of gas supply.

Sue Walton,
Manager  - ManageACC