The Waiheke Community Art Gallery has won control of the event known as headland Sculpture on the Gulf after a breakaway group from last summer's organising committee tried to establish an independent trust to run it.
Gallery members voted overwhelmingly to set up a company to organise the biennial event, which drew 33,000 visitors this year.
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