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He said, if this were apartheid-era South Africa, they would have “been necklaced with a burning tire [sic] around your necks”. Shelly Bay, on the western side of the Miramar peninsula, is where developer Ian Cassels plans a $500-million development that has spent years bogged down by courts, commissioners and council conflict.
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Anaru Mepham started his Shelly Bay occupation as a one-man sentry in November. It is now a large operation. Wellington Mayor Andy Foster, whose previous support for the occupation extended to him helping fix a wind-damaged tent at the occupation site, on Sunday said he was “deeply disturbed to see these angry and violent words”.
Wellington police say they continue to work with all the parties involved in the land dispute at Shelly Bay.
Mau Whenua have set up camp at Shelly Bay in opposition to a planned seaside development.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
Officers were called out this morning by Mau Whenua - a group of Taranaki Whānui iwi members - who are occupying the land, after police did not remove engineers and a property manager.
The land was sold to the property developer The Wellington Company, which has plans to turn the land into luxury housing.
Mau Whenua believe the sale of the land was not legitimate. A report by the Māori Land Court found in August that thousands of iwi members did not get a say in the sale due to failings of the iwi membership system.