Te Hana business owners cop abuse over council-run toilets

Council says the three portaloos are a temporary solution, while a more sustainable long-term solution is put in place at the hall. Public frustration at the lack of proper public toilet facilities in Te Hana boiled over this month, when a traveller assaulted the owner of G.A.S. Te Hana John Pattan. Pattan says that while filling a gas bottle for a customer on January 6, a man walked onto the forecourt angry that the portaloos at the Te Hana Hall were locked. “I told him that he should call the council,” Pattan says. “He called me names and then grabbed me by the throat and pushed me backwards...