Unions may lift green ban
PA Auckland The Auckland Trades Council will lift its green ban on Bastion Point if Maori housing is built. Nor, it seems, will the ban be maintained if the Government approves the steering committee plan for general low-cost community housing. The council secretary (Mr P. Purdue) has said that the council had been against the original Government plan to subdivide part of Bastion Point for housing for the “very wealthy.”
“As far as we are concerned the Maoris have not enough housing up there,” he said. They should not have to pay to buy the existing Maori rental housing. The Government had left it a little late in the day to offer to sell them to the tenants when “every one else can buy theirs.” They had been paying rent for a long time, Mr Purdue said, and prices today were inflated. Mr Mike Rameka, a spokesman for the Bastion Point protesters, said that if the Government accepted the report it was “definitely” possible the protesters might leave.
“We cannot stay here for ever,” he said. The report was a starting point for negotiations with the Government and he personally favoured parts ot it.
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