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Minister of Corrections, Kelvin Davis is currently seeking collaborative approaches with iwi leaders to find solutions to the Māori prison population problem.
If you miss the State Highway 1 turnoff to central Kawakawa – with the tracks running down the middle of Gillies St, and those too-interesting-to-pee-on Hundertwasser toilets – and follow State Highway 11, you find Whiteman’s Rd on your left. Turn, and you come across a cul-de-sac called Leonard St. I cruised along this street via Google Maps (sitting in an office in Wellington) out of curiosity, after Cabinet Minister and Labour deputy leader Kelvin Davis, 53, spoke about his childhood here.