The owner of a restaurant and cafe in west Auckland has been left shocked by a racist note left on the windscreen of his wife's vehicle.
"This is NZ Not Your country our land our carpark !!" the note said, in English but broken by the lack of punctuation.
It was left on the windscreen of Parviz Khorakchi's wife's car last Saturday morning, while she was busy working away at the family restaurant, Arum Restaurant, in Kelston, west Auckland.
Khorakchi, moved to New Zealand from Iran with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, in early 2003. He says this is the first time he has ever encountered racism in New Zealand.