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Friday, 16 April 2021, 9:00 am
Friday 17 April: Before dawn this
morning 72 year old grandmother Linda Hill climbed atop a
digger being used to cut a logging track through the Western
Springs Forest.
Linda was raised in the area and used
to play in the forest as a child. “I am protecting this
forest for my grandchildren.”
Word of her entry led
to Waitemata Local Board elected representative Sarah
Trotman following her in support.
“This community is
rightly outraged at the disrespect shown then and lack of
authentic engagement around this project and the destruction
being wrought which is not what anyone imagined when they
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