Weather Report Costings
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From: E.Marshall
Dear Fire and Emergency New Zealand,
Please provide me with how much Fire and Emergency New Zealand has spent on weather reports for incidents through the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and New Zealand Institute for Earth Science (ESI)
I am looking for the 2024 year and 2025 year to date figures.
Yours faithfully,
E.Marshall
From: Official Information Requests
Fire and Emergency New Zealand
Tēnā koe E Marshall
Re: Official Information request - Weather Report Costings
We write to acknowledge receipt of your information request dated 17
December 2025. Our commitment is to provide a response to your request as
soon as possible, and no later than 20 working days after the day it was
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