Thursday, 20 May 2021, 9:03 am
The choice by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern
and Ministry of Culture and Heritage to locate the Erebus
National Memorial on a Pā site in central Auckland has
drawn the wrath of well over 11,500 people including Erebus
families.
The petition calls on the Prime Minister to
stop planned construction and protect the whenua that is
home to one of New Zealand’s largest urban
Pōhutukawa.
It was handed over on the steps of
Parliament by Ms Margaret Brough to MP Shanan Halbert, Chair
of the Petitions Select Committee. A number of other MP’s