Although the summit of One Tree Hill-Maungakiekie is now closed to vehicles, if you have mobility issues, you can still drive up there. However, to open the barrier on the day, you need to call  Auckland Council for an access code. Not only have some residents had trouble finding the correct telephone number to call, but once they have called, they have been passed from pillar to post, as no-one at the other end had the right information.

An article in the June edition of the Onehunga Community News stated that, “The Office of Ethnic Communities is moving into premises in Onehunga, which will be shared with Labour List MP Priyanca Radhakrishnan.” 

To clarify, neither the office, or its staff, are connected in any way with the Office for Ethnic Communities, which is a government unit within the Department of Internal Affairs. The Department of Internal Affairs’ Office of Ethnic Communities’ only Auckland office is in Albert Street in central Auckland.

Harbour bars are commonplace throughout New Zealand and according to the Coastguard Northern Region there are only three types of bar, dangerous, very dangerous and extremely dangerous. As Coastguard Education manager Darren Arthur says, “When you have a problem on a bar, they are rarely ever small problems.”