Protesters Te Huatahi Hawira and Phil Reweti talk to a security guard. Wanganui Chronicle photograph by Laurel Stowell.
Protesters Te Huatahi Hawira and Phil Reweti talk to a security guard. Wanganui Chronicle photograph by Laurel Stowell.
A wide spectrum of issues inspired four people to protest at a Whanganui and Partners meeting attended by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy on Tuesday.
The four stood outside Whanganui's Cooks Gardens function centre with placards and banged saucepans to make a noise. They were not allowed to take theirprotest inside.
Te Huatahi Hawira said the planned surf clan factory at Whanganui's port would be on a wahi tapu (sacred place) and she didn't want it there. Tanea Tangaroa objected to "a whole list of things" in the Manawatu/Whanganui regional growth plan.
Donna Steer thought any port development would be used in the proposed iron-sand mining and not for ferry development. It would not be good for the environment, she said.
