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The local shopping centre has a butcher, hairdresser, baker, chemist and supermarket, along with a petrol station. The supermarket includes a coffee shop. Another local supermarket, known as the Spence/Evatt Shops, is located on
Copland Drive. Next to it is the Tongan Community Centre, rebuilt in
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