Mainfreight founder Bruce Plested battling Waiheke Island marina development
5 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Project director Tony Mair discusses the Kennedy Point Marina. Video / Kennedy Point Marina
Plans to develop Waiheke Island s first marina are opposed by Māori as well as rich-lister Bruce Plested, chairman and founder of Mainfreight with a $6.8 billion market capitalisation. It s a disgrace, a kind of madness, quite extreme. It s grotesque if you see what they re trying to do, Plested said of Tony Mair s 186-berth marina proposal for Putiki Bay, Kennedy Point.
Ngāti Pāoa iwi members have also been camping at the site where Mair s business began development in early March. Those iwi members are also vowing to stop the scheme, citing the kaupapa of the moana.