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”.