Wednesday 17 October 2012 Update

First apologies for the formatting of the last few posts. It all looks nicely set out in paragraphs when I am composing them and then it squashes all together when I go to save them. Still trying to fix it. Thank you for your feedback to this point. It was part of the reason I started this blog nearly three years ago. This whole current scenario was always going to come out into the open at some point and I wanted to be transparent in everything I did. I have nothing to hide. I heard the bach-owners perspectives and was grateful they shared their stories and traditions of the beach. Giving the upmost respect, it was weird that a group of people were enjoying the area even if I wasn't. Like most things, there are always two sides to a story. My Whanau never visited that beach when we were young. I always knew about the area but we never went there...for one reason...those baches ! They represented what was wrong in todays society as far as we were concerned. A culture of a past era where a minority thought it is fine to build on private land they do not own. We are certainly not the first to go through this however we are probably one of the last. Worse still is we have to use our own money to achieve it. I had no choice but to get involved because leaving it to the next generation would make the whole situation even more difficult to resolve. Just a couple of comments about the feedback provided thus far. First, if you are a beneficiary of this land and want any financial information then contact myself directly and I am happy to provide it. To all the other comments posted - Interesting viewpoints however read the Whanganui Chronicle in the next day or so...hopefully it clears up a few issues for you. To conclude, my first post in January 2012 prophetically ended with the sentence "...There is a rumbling on the horizon and its been slowly biding its time. Watching and waiting"...Guess what?!