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Owner forced to fix ‘swamp’ home
MARLENE SINGH The landlord warned them of a The mum posted to a local com- when it rained, the stormwater Fergusson said.
little flooding, but Robbie said the munity page on August 27, saying level rises and the pipe just floated ‘‘Cross connections between
The landlord of a ‘‘swamp’’ house house morphed into a fully fledged the family paid $520 a week to live under the house. wastewater and stormwater pipes
in south Auckland is promising to ‘‘swamp’’ when it rained. in a swamp house where her girls Auckland Council investigated are illegal. They cause damage by
fix his property’s drainage Auckland Council issued an were constantly ill. the problems after her plight was overloading the wastewater sys-
problems following a council insanitary notice to the landlord Her 10-month-old daughter had made public. tem, which creates flooding, as
investigation. on August 31, giving him 10 days experienced three bouts of bron- Council compliance well as environmental contami-
However, it comes too late for to rectify the drainage problems. chitis and was discharged from investigations team manager nation,’’ Fergusson added.
the tenants who say they will Work on the property began on hospital on August 24, she wrote. Kerri Fergusson said an insani- Landlord Aven Raj said he had
move out for the sake of their Monday, but Robbie said they In almost two years at the tary notice was issued to Raj. appointed a project manager to
daughters’ health. planned to find a new home. rental property, the only thing It required him to remedy the work through the issues and he
Dawn Robbie, her partner ‘‘[The] health of my girls is their landlord had done was drainage issues, repair the had spoke with the tenants.
Cameron Taylor, and their more important.’’ ‘‘shove a long pipe, the width of windows and clean the mould. The project manager said he
daughters aged three and 10 Prior to work commencing, the house underneath the home’’. If Raj failed to comply within was liaising with council to get
months, moved into the Papakura Robbie posted about her ordeal to However, she said the pipe the 10 day period, he could face work underway starting on
rental property in January 2017. Facebook. wasn’t connected to anything, so council fines or additional notices, Monday.
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Turbo-charging house builds Your
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Going density rules still in the pipeline
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Niall undisturbed progress.
The key difference between a Imogen Neale 021 737 753
Todd Niall UDA and an SHA though is imogen.neale@stuff.co.nz; Liu Chen
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charge the building of new would of course work hand in 09 525 2022, delivery@snl.co.nz
housing in Auckland, re-building hand with the council, he insisted.
and modernising entire Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford sees an Urban But in Auckland’s case, it’s a 26,943 audited circulation (ABC
communities of 5-10,000 homes. Development Authority as key to turbo-charging home-building in Auckland. council in which he still lacks for the 12 months to Dec 31, 2017).
It would be a new, powerful LAWRENCE SMITH/STUFF public confidence, laying at the Delivered each Wednesday (RD
entity - an almost one-stop shop - council’s feet much of the blame areas Thursday) to: Alfriston,
with the powers to plan, finance, There’s plenty to mull over. A It argues the council should for the under-building of homes Ardmore, Brookby, Clevedon,
and control the re-development of UDA could be allowed to build have the right of veto on some over the past decade. Conifer Grove, Drury township,
neighbourhoods in existing urban along to far more generous issues, and that in Auckland ‘‘It’s largely the fault of land Hunua, Karaka, Karaka Lakes,
areas. planning rules than would council agencies such as Auckland use planning, which is the Kawakawa Bay, Opaheke, Orere
In Auckland, the minister for otherwise apply to the Transport and Watercare, should council’s responsibility,’’ Twyford Point, Pahurehure, Papakura,
Housing and Urban Development surrounding area. One city, two have a role in determining the said. Ponga, Red Hill, Takanini. Includes
Phil Twyford has talked of 12 to 15 rules. Maybe six storeys high parameters of a development. That’s an accusation that Papakura RD 2, 3, 4, 5. Manurewa
such areas, primarily where the instead of three, as a hypothetical Also that as the name suggests, mimics the lines of his RD1. Papakura RD 1 (Karaka only).
state has large blocks of existing example. a UDA should only be able to predecessor, National’s Nick
housing. Northcote, Mangere, and Auckland Council last year operate in existing, or already Smith, and isn’t winning favour MISSED DELIVERY?
Mount Roskill are often cited, and provided its thoughts to the planned urban areas, not in inside the council. Register at fixmydelivery.co.nz or
the newly acquired Unitec site in Ministry of Business, Innovation infrastructure-hungry rural sites. Twyford said the all-important see e-editions at neighbourly.co.nz/
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for some years, and got serious of conditions. and its first iteration has had legislation following perhaps early NZ MEDIA COUNCIL
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National-led Government called that a UDA should be able to The government-driven a year later. of the NZ Media Council. To find
for submissions on the UDA operate in conflict with the Housing Accord (2013-16) created Worry you shouldn’t, watch out more or complain visit
concept. ambitions of the council. Special Housing Areas (SHA) that closely you should. mediacouncil.org.nz.
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Car dealers’ dilemma 1080 to be
dropped in
Hunuas again
LIU CHEN
Opportunistic private car sellers MARLENE SINGH
are parking their vehicles right
outside south Auckland car yards A 1080 drop designed to protect
and sticking up ‘for sale’ signs. the Hunua Ranges from pests
Multiple cars displaying ‘for will go ahead in the coming
sale’ signs are parked along Great weeks, undeterred by backlash
South Rd in Takanini, annoying from anti-1080 activists.
professional car dealers who say Auckland Council will drop
they’re luring away potential the deadly poison in the ranges,
customers. in Auckland’s rural southeast,
Jasmit Singh runs a car yard when the weather allows.
on the stretch of road and said he The move comes after an anti-
was frustrated by the tactics - par- 1080 protest at Britomart in July
ticularly because he has been told that led to two arrests.
by Auckland Transport it would The council first dropped 1080
be illegal for him to park his own in the ranges in 2015 in a bid to
second-hand cars in exactly the protect native species such as
same spot and advertise them for the endangered kōkako from
sale. possums, rats and stoats.
‘‘It’s affecting my business. It’s Councillor Penny Hulse, the
affecting everybody’s business,’’ chairwoman of the council’s
Singh said. environment and community
Dealers were losing public committee, said in the three
parking spaces for potential years since that operation, the
buyers, as some of the cars for sale numbers of pests had begun to
were parked there 24/7 until they creep up again.
were sold, he said. ‘‘By repeating pest control we
‘‘They’re not even registered can ensure the protection of our
car dealers. It’s competition with precious forest and the
somebody who’s not paying threatened species that live
proper taxes.’’ within it,’’ she said.
Singh had been approaching Areas that will be affected by
each seller and telling them to the drop include Department of
move their cars. Conservation-regulated lands
Some would do so but others such as the Mataitai Conser-
just told him to ‘‘get lost’’, Singh vation Area, Tai Rawhiti Scenic
said. Reserve, Papa Turoa Scenic Res-
Tommy Mead, a worker at a erve, Whakatiri Scenic Reserve,
tyre shop close by, was one of the Jasmit Singh - his business is affected. Plows Road Conservation Area,
private car sellers. He said he had Paparimu Conservation Area,
sold two cars there so far. safe manner and were in an area Ireland said vehicles for sale limit there, and was refused Mangatawhiri Forest Conser-
‘‘It’s public space. Why with no parking time limits. could be a nuisance in some because they said the occupancy vation Area, Vining Scenic Res-
shouldn’t we be allowed to park Auckland Transport’s 2012 situations, particularly if there level was not high enough. erve and Richard Sylvan Mem-
there?’’ he said. traffic bylaw states cars for sale were a number of such vehicles Steven Chai, the manager of orial Reserve.
‘‘I use the car everyday. I drive can only be parked if they are parked at a location. another car dealership, agreed Some neighbouring privately-
it home. I don’t get why it’s a big being used for day-to-day travel. ‘‘In cases where parking occu- with Singh, and said he was also owned land will also be affected.
problem.’’ However, Singh could not park pancy and availability becomes an worried about the safety of his The drop, covering 23,000
Singh said he made multiple cars from his yard out on the issue, we will respond to the situ- customers. hectares, will begin with a non-
complaints to Auckland Council street, Ireland said. ation in accordance with our Park- There were often cars parked toxic cereal bait which will be
and Auckland Transport. ‘‘A car dealer would not be ing Strategy.’’ close to the driveway to his yard, followed by the hazardous
However, Auckland Transport allowed to sell their cars on the A parking infringement would which blocked the sight of pesticide 1080. The area will be
spokesman James Ireland said road, as this would be a commer- be issued if the car was parked in incoming traffic, Chai said. separated into two individual
cars for sale could be parked on cial enterprise.’’ an illegal manner, Ireland said. ‘‘I didn’t make a big fuss about blocks in order to control and
streets if they had a current war- Singh said he was unconvinced Singh said he tried to request it before, but now it’s affecting our safeguard the water supply
rant of fitness, were parked in a by AT’s reasoning. AT put parking signs with time customers.’’ reservoirs nearby.
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‘I’ve rung 111 probably about 50 times’
JARRED WILLIAMSON AND And then there’s the loud
KYMBERLEE FERNANDES music. The sound travelled
across the water to the other side,
A once-quiet spot on one Auck- she said.
land wharf has turned into an ‘‘Saturday nights are an issue
unofficial party zone in recent because the police are busy, so it
years. becomes a lower priority for
Loud music, drinking and them.’’
even sexual encounters spark up Jeremy Fraser, who lives near
along the wharf at Māngere the wharf, has experienced it all.
Bridge at early hours most Even an occasional brawl.
weekends. ‘‘I’ve rung 111 probably about
Fun for some. But it’s also 50 times in the last year,’’ he said.
breaking the law. The most Fraser had seen was
Last year, police began work- about 30 cars one evening.
ing with council authorities to Time and time again, the
deter the rowdy crowds and residents said they were frus-
enforce liquor bans. But the mess- trated with calling noise control.
age doesn’t appear to be getting Fraser said callers are asked
through. whether alcohol is being con-
Residents spoken to by Stuff sumed.
say up to 20 cars can be parked up ‘‘They go ‘if there’s any alcohol
on Thursday, Friday or Saturday being consumed then we pass it
nights. on to the police, so it’s a police
It’s been as early as 8pm or matter’,’’ he said.
right through to 8am the follow- ‘‘They encourage you to ring
ing day. the police.’’
Nearby Waterfront Road also Fraser recalls one time he had
attracted more than 200 noise to go down to the wharf to write
complaints in 2017. down one of the number plates for A new clearway is in place between 10pm and 4pm as a result of the work between police and council agencies.
THE LOCALS: police. JARRED WILLIAMSON/STUFF
Māngere Bridge residents and ‘‘Eight police cars ended up
business owners have noticed the going down and arresting a whole ‘‘Then you get the ‘boom, liquor ban signage. issue tickets and it also gives
issue in recent years. lot of them,’’ he said. boom, boom’ of the music, fight- More liquor ban signs had Auckland Transport the power to
Business association chair But sometimes police just ing and sometimes the guys doing been installed on every light pole tow unattended vehicles, he said.
Pauline Anderson said at least didn’t have resources to attend, wheelies,’’ she said. earlier this year. The lighting was So far police had been moving
two residents were thinking of he said. The woman said she had also also upgraded to LED technology, people on. A normal fine is $60.
moving elsewhere. ‘‘Even going down there to get witnessed fights near her house. Stuff reported at the time, In August, the Māngere-
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all to see. danger.’’ Manukau police district preven- Sergeant Scott Dixon said a be painted on the sidewalk.
‘‘They’re drinking alcohol and A Kiwi Esplanade resident in tion unit began a project at the clearway had since been Dixon said the message wasn’t
having sex. We know that her 70s, who asked not to be ident- wharf. implemented between 10pm and getting through to some people.
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NZTA: Year-on-year road toll dive
NICK TRUEBRIDGE AND LAINE
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The Government is aiming for a
year-on-year reduction to the
national road toll, which has
increased every year since 2013.
New Zealand Transport
Agency chief executive Fergus
Gammie made the comments
during Transport Minister Phil
Twyford’s announcement the
Government will spend $16.9
billion on the country’s transport
system, in measures set out in its
latest National Land Transport
Programme (NLTP).
The package includes $4.3b to
reduce deaths and injuries on the
roads through a programme of
median safety barrier, roadside
barrier and rumble strip
instalments.
Speeds could also be lowered
on some roads, while more
money – $1.3b – will be spent on
road policing. The investment in
safety was a 37 per cent increase The Government is to spend $16.9b on transport in its three-year transport programme. (File photo). DILEEPA FONSEKA/STUFF
compared to the last NLTP, the
Government said. In 2017, 378 commuters were though, just think about the rather than the big cities, with improved, including Puhinui rail
‘‘There are many dangerous killed on the roads. The toll has whole picture, so the NLTP funds regional roads receiving $5.8b of station and investigating rapid
roads in New Zealand [and] there gone up every year since 2013, the police and their programme. funding, up $600 million from the transit measures to eastern
are people dying unnecessary when 253 people were killed. ‘‘The police have set a target of last NLTP. suburbs of Botany.
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‘‘If we were to build a four- ‘‘But we’re looking at, if you activity, there’s improvements investment. $67m and SeaPath will also
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‘‘All for eradicating pests but not at the
‘‘"Putting all of Auckland’s pylons and
we power lines underground has always you cost of it affecting/taking our domestic
pets, farm animals, native flora, fauna &
say been hotly debated. ’’ say wildlife, waterways and human life.’’
There are risks in life ONLINE CHATTER:
"Police would like to
remind the public of the
importance of securing their
KARL DU FRESNE OK then. Now let’s apply the doing things that entail an vehicles when not in use and
same test to a range of other element of risk. not leaving valuables on
OPINION: So – the latest word human activities. Most people manage that risk display. We are again seeing an
from health researchers is that no Travelling by car, indeed any by taking sensible precautions. increase in over-night thefts
level of alcohol consumption can form of transport, carries the risk They weigh the risks against the from unlocked vehicles parked
be considered safe. of injury or death on the road. rewards and act accordingly. both on the Street and on
Let’s set aside the fact that Does that mean we never go We don’t drive fast in cars with private properties. Many of the
we’re constantly bombarded with anywhere? No. bald tyres and munted brakes. We thefts are occurring from
health and diet studies that Getting married carries the try to choose the right life partners vehicles parked down long
frequently contradict each other – risk that the relationship will end and do our best to resolve any One glass of alcohol might be one driveways, where thieves have
to the extent that many people are in an ugly and painful divorce. conflict that arises in the too many, according to researchers. access to multiple properties." -
inclined to disregard them all – Does that mean people stay single? relationship. 123RF Newmarket Community
and take this latest one at face No. If we play rugby, we wear Policing Team, on Neighbourly
value. Playing sport carries the risk of mouthguards and avoid head-high like to focus on the 20 per cent of
Superficially, the results of the injury and disability. Does that tackles. If we ski, we stay on the alcohol consumers whom they
survey, conducted by the Institute mean we would be healthier if we designated slopes. If we push classify as ‘‘heavy’’ drinkers, but
for Health Metrics and Evaluation were a nation of couch potatoes? beyond those (relatively) safe their definitions are questionable.
at the University of Washington, No. limits, we accept the risk and take The ‘‘safe’’ drinking limits that
look persuasive. Investing money carries the responsibility for the possible guided British alcohol policy for I know lots of healthy, sober
The researchers found that risk that the investment will go consequences. years weren’t based on any hard women who would exceed that
while alcohol might be beneficial belly-up and we’ll lose financially. I could go on, but you get my data, but were plucked out of the limit at least occasionally. They
in some circumstances, the Does that mean we hide our drift. air by a Royal College of would be shocked at the thought
benefits are outweighed by risks savings under the mattress? No. Now, back to alcohol. Most Physicians working party, which that they were officially
that increase regardless of how Travelling to exotic places New Zealanders drink didn’t really have a clue how considered heavy drinkers.
little is consumed. carries the risk of life-threatening responsibly. They understand that much alcohol was safe. But of course that’s the aim: to
Not surprisingly, they found illnesses from eating dodgy food or excessive consumption carries In the United States, a female scare people into cutting back or
the risks start out small with one cutting our feet on poisonous risk. Even the so-called experts, heavy drinker is now classified as giving up altogether.
drink a day, then increase as coral. Does that mean we stay at who never miss an opportunity to one who has eight or more drinks The publicly funded neo-
people consume more – hardly a home? No. lecture us on the perils of alcohol, a week. Is it a good idea to wowsers are on a moral crusade,
stop-the-presses revelation. The point is that life would be grudgingly accept that the great regularly have eight or more and they never let up. They don’t
Their conclusion: going unbearably dull – even pointless – majority of people drink in drinks a week? Probably not. But trust ordinary people to make
teetotal is the only sure way to without the pleasure, satisfaction moderation. to claim that anyone who does is a sensible decisions about what’s
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IN DEPTH
Ōtara markets, a melting pot of cultures, cuisines and even religions. About half the stalls are now Asian-run, reflecting the changes in Auckland’s demographics. CHRIS McKEEN/STUFF
A suburb reb rn
The changing face of Ōtara
up with a solution: a new Māori, lacking marae, also
community on the city fringes to lost their ability to meet in
take the overflow population. formal or ritual gatherings. As a
Within 10 years, there were result of the limits of Pākehā-
4000 homes in Ōtara, mostly style housing, double garages
It was meant to be a promised land for and one of his cousins was
caught and deported to Samoa.
state houses. On paper, it was a
slice of the suburban dream. The
across Ōtara were converted into
rumpus rooms, sleepouts and
young families. Instead, Ōtara in south He later returned under a new houses still smelled of fresh pine. meeting houses.
work permit and fathered an All A job in the neighbouring You can still spot them.
Auckland produced shocking levels of Black. industrial hubs was guaranteed. Another method of creating
poverty, crime and gang violence. Now Sio, now the minister for
Pacific peoples, says given what
All you had to do was move in.
But in practice, the suburb
extra space is to drape a
tarpaulin over a carport.
residents say it has grown up and should Ōtara residents went through in felt more like a labour camp than The oversights in Ōtara’s
be allowed at last to shake off its bad the raids in the 70s, it’s a marvel
where his suburb is at today.
a community. It lacked halls,
kindergartens or parks. There
early years would prove a costly
mistake, leaving whole genera-
reputation. Harrison Christian reports. Auckland is now the world’s were no shrubs or trees, because tions of young people with
largest Pacific city, and no nothing had had time to grow. nowhere to gather except the
suburb epitomises that more Instead, the streets were street.
A
upito William Sio than Ōtara. It’s everywhere you festooned with power lines.
remembers the night look: the Pacific nation flags in Bill McKay, a senior lecturer THE MACHETE MURDER
police banged on the the streets, the fresh taro in at Auckland University and an ‘‘If you can survive in Ōtara,’’
door and his cousins crates on the footpaths, and the expert on state housing, sees says Gray Theodore, ‘‘man, you
took off, chased by dogs across a Samoan banana panikeke, or Ōtara as an example of what not can survive anywhere.’’
creek. pancakes, served from the food to do when building a suburb. The kaumatua, 84, has seen
It was about 4 o’clock in the arrested and taken in for warmers at the takeaway shop. ‘‘They were increasing the the suburb at rock bottom. When
morning. When Sio’s parents questioning. And then the ‘‘Anyone who grew up in density and getting people to live a young man was hacked to
answered the door, their faces church leaders would go down Ōtara has grown up like a cheek by jowl, but not providing death with a machete in front of
were lit up with torches and an and negotiate their release. In phoenix out of the ashes,’’ Sio the amenities that need to go hundreds of shoppers at the
officer with a police dog marched some instances they found the says. ‘‘I think people are really with increasing density.’’ town centre, Theodore was just
into the house. person wasn’t an overstayer, or resilient, and despite the Crucially, state houses didn’t across the road in his vicarage.
Sio, then 14, had heard was actually Māori. challenges of that sad and bitter acknowledge Māori or Pacific ‘‘Terrified crowd watched
murmurings at school about the Sio didn’t figure his own and traumatised era, people ways of living, as Housing NZ brutal gang knife attack,’’ was
dawn raids targeting over- family would be raided next. grew from it, and learnt how to does in its guidelines today. the headline in the Auckland
stayers. He knew his father had The night it happened, some work together.’’ Pacific people live as Sun in May 1988.
been meeting church leaders, of his cousins were sleeping in extended families, but a standard ‘‘A stunned silence hung over
discussing how to approach the the garage, their work permits A CAUTIONARY TALE Kiwi house was neither large the normally bustling Otara
government about the inhumane recently expired. Waking up to Ōtara began as a promised land nor robust enough to withstand town centre after the brutal
treatment of Pacific people. dogs barking and lights shining for young families. the pressures of that lifestyle. To revenge killing of 21-year-old
It wasn’t just the raids on in the windows, they ran into After World War II, Auckland this day, about four in 10 Pacific David Fuko.’’
their homes; it was the way farmland behind the property. was desperately short of houses. people live in crowded homes in On an autumn morning,
people were stopped in the street, The police dogs gave chase, In the late 1950s, planners came New Zealand. Samoan Iupeli Pauga attacked aneighbourly.co.nz SEPTEMBER 5, 2018, PAPAKURA COURIER 11
IN DEPTH
Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio in his Wellington office. He remembers a dawn raid on While much has changed about life in Ōtara, there are still some certainties. Church remains a
his home when he was only 14. ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF focal point of the community. DAVID WHITE/STUFF
group of Tongans at the flea various times been in the deprived part of Auckland in an
market with a machete. He was national media glare. Auckland Tourism, Events &
consumed with a need for Francis Leilua was only 15 Economic Development
revenge after being injured in a when he was beamed on to prosperity index, given just 0.7
fight with a Tongan. Pauga national television as a out of 10. That’s compared with
fatally slashed Fuko, an uncle of spokesman for the Ōrākei at 9.8. Income levels in
future All Black Jonah Lomu, in Stormtroopers gang. The 1970 Ōtara were 22 per cent below the
the neck. interview with Brian Edwards Auckland average.
He nearly cut another young was intended as a gritty report But one resident says the
Tongan man’s arm off, and from one of the country’s worst prosperity stats don’t tell the full
chased him through the ghettos. story: that of a new generation of
shopping centre. Among the boys who entrepreneurs with distinctly
The year of the murder, responded evenly to Edwards Pacific and Māori ways of doing
Theodore had just been was Leilua, the gang’s sergeant- Bystanders business.
appointed minister for the Ōtara at-arms. He explained that he crowd around The second floor of a
Māori Anglican Church. He, wife and his friends had started the body of commercial building in Ōtahuhu
Gloria and their four kids moved rallying together for protection. David Fuko, who hosts an open-plan office that
was murdered in
into the vicarage across the road They were being picked on by a racially
looks down on punters waiting
from the town centre. adult gangs from other districts. inspired for a tavern to open; in it, Stella
Gloria came racing in one The uniform was a denim machete attack Muller runs a creative market-
morning and said ‘‘there’s been a jacket. They painted these black, in 1988. It was ing agency called Bright Sunday.
murder at the flea market’’. and then one of the boys who the low point in Muller has five employees,
Theodore headed to the town was good with a paint brush the history of and a network of dozens of Māori
centre, where he found throngs would go over them with the Ōtara. and Pacific contractors. She’s
of shoppers gathered around skull and crossbones detailing. JAMES PASENE proud that the agency is south
Fuko’s body. The police were Auckland-based, and that
T
there trying to keep order, but hey had no idea what people in the city – everyone
nobody was listening. they were doing, reflects from government
At midday, there wasn’t a Leilua today in his bureaucrats to film-makers
young person in Ōtara, Theodore classroom at Ōtara’s Sir – are turning to Bright
says. His own children had left. Edmund Hillary Collegiate. He’s Sunday for their campaigns.
‘‘They’d taken all the buses a teacher at the same school he The 42-year-old says
and gone into town. They said, attended as a Stormtrooper. there’s a creative and
‘We want out’.’’ ‘‘We were just school kids. economic explosion in south
Thirty years later, Ōtara is We’d all gather at someone’s Soon after his release, he van; a Cook Islands Auckland that’s gone relatively
still trying to shed that image. place, and the parents would say stopped for a selfie with one of Māori lady from Epsom shows unnoticed.
But Inspector Wendy Spiller ‘I don’t want all you kids around his ‘‘fans’’ in Manukau’s off her array of ’ei katu (flower For example, Ōtara residents
says in recent years crime in the here,’ so we’d move on, to Westfield shopping centre. He crowns) and coconut oils. Swannie and Terry Nelson last
area has dropped – especially someone else’s garage.’’ did not respond to interview The market is widely known year developed the country’s
violent crime. After a few years they grew requests. as a place to mingle and buy first phone app to help people
In fact, the bigger challenge up and disbanded. A couple of Spiller says that, over the past cheap veggies – or if you live pass their driver’s licence tests.
for officers in the district isn’t contemporary gangs in New several years, gang activity in outside Auckland, as a well-worn Ōtara-bred stylist Nora Swann,
the offenders, but being able to Zealand that use the name Ōtara has declined. ‘‘I’m not destination for politicians on the meanwhile, founded the Pacific
afford to live there. ‘‘Stormtroopers’’ are unrelated saying there is no gang activity campaign trail. Fusion Fashion Show.
‘‘Police officers don’t want to except by name. there, because there is – but I do A visit to the Ōtara market is ‘‘There’s lots of enterprising
move out of the area because of Ōtara has remained fertile think that Ōtara itself is getting almost a rite of passage for stories that we know, but I think
the work they do. They want to ground for gangs. The stronger as a community in that future leaders: Helen Clark in the biggest challenge we have is
leave because they can’t afford to Tribesmen motorcycle gang regard.’’ 1997; John Key in 2008; Jacinda the visibility of our stories.’’
buy a house.’’ emerged in the 80s, and its feeder Ardern in 2017. Soon, Ōtara’s troubled history
Lotu Fuli, the chairwoman of youth street gang the Killer Beez THE PLACE TO BE SEEN Political analyst Bryce will be just that – history – and
the Ōtara-Papatoetoe local followed in 2003. Mormons and Muslims are Edwards says the event is a home buyers won’t think twice
board, says she doesn’t lock the In 2008, Killer Beez president giving away their scriptures crucial ‘‘home ground’’ for the before moving there. The
front door to their home, and Josh Masters appeared on within a few steps of each other. Labour Party; a meeting place of question becomes how its
hasn’t for years. She often Campbell Live in a somewhat Followers of the Chinese low-income voters to whom the Polynesian identity will hold out
doesn’t lock her car, either, when more scripted interview than the spiritual practice Falun Gong party has historically appealed. against the rapid development
she parks at the town centre. one conducted by Edwards on have occupied the town centre But the flea market is even sweeping Auckland.
She says it’s now a place the streets of Ōtara. This time with their tai chi-like more valuable to politicians on Many residents came to Ōtara
where you’re more likely to run the questions weren’t about movements, while an evangelist the Right, Edwards says, because after their families were pushed
into churchgoers and youth swastikas, but about violent in a fluorescent rain suit it’s such a good opportunity for out of the inner city as their
groups than gang members. attacks on members of the preaches the gospel through a them to be shown mixing with suburbs became gentrified. The
But Ōtara remains one of the public, and methamphetamine. PA system in the car park. the masses. villas and cottages they left are
more difficult areas of Auckland ‘‘We’re against it. We hate it,’’ Ōtara’s flea market is a tour ‘‘For people like John Key, now multimillion-dollar homes.
to police. One of the biggest Masters said of the drug. Three of multicultural Auckland, a attending events like the Ōtara Locals hope the city has
issues now is vehicle crime, months later, he and 43 other marketplace for vegetables and market was a very strong learnt from other projects that
Spiller says, which typically Killer Beez and Tribesmen clothes and the world’s religions. indicator to the rest of New displaced long-term residents,
involves young offenders. affiliates were arrested in a There is Pacific fare and a Zealand that he was capable of such as the Tāmaki regeneration
‘‘They can get into a car drugs sting. Masters served a growing Eastern presence, with mixing with people very in Glen Innes.
quicker than you and I can get 10-year sentence for dealing P around half of the stalls now different from himself.’’ Ōtara’s redevelopment, they
the keys out of our pocket.’’ and money laundering. He was Asian-owned. say, should happen in a way that
released from prison in July; A Chinese family from Mt UNTAPPED POTENTIAL doesn’t uproot families and
GANGING UP many other Killer Beez members Roskill unloads beans, ginger Earlier this year, Ōtara- villages, causing yet another
The youth gangs of Ōtara have at remain behind bars. and eggplant out of their big red Papatoetoe was ranked the most exodus south of the city.12 PAPAKURA COURIER, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 neighbourly.co.nz
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