The transvestites were breaking an agreement which banned sex business between 6am and 9pm. Photo / Getty Images
A group of Hamilton transvestites is has been accused of causing havoc in a South Auckland red-light area by breaking a long-standing deal between sex workers and the community.
The chairman of the Hunters Corner Town Centre Society in Papatoetoe, Pat Taylor, said the transvestites were breaking an agreement that
police and locals had with the Prostitutes Collective which banned sex business between 6am and 9pm.
"The information we have got is a group of five or six transvestites moved up from Hamilton about two or three months ago.
"They are a particularly abrasive group of people and have no faith in the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective. They have told the police and some of our security people that they won't listen to what the NZPC has to say."
Mr Taylor said prostitution in the area had been quieter than normal over the past six months but Papatoetoe had seen a "pretty heavy influx of street prostitutes".
