Ngāti Whātua backflip comes under community scrutiny

The more than 100 members of various iwi and the wider community who gathered in Wellsford included representatives from the three Māori entities that withdrew their opposition to the landfill earlier this month, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whātua, Te Uri of Hau and Nga Maunga Whakahii Trust. Photo, Roaming Lenz. Hui organiser Mikaera Miru. We should have been consulted and the fight goes on – that was the overwhelming message from a public meeting last week, after the shock decision by three Ngāti Whātua statutory trusts to stop opposing the proposed Dome Valley landfill after more than six years (MM,...