Tenants’ Society given $5000
PA Auckland The Auckland City Council has decided to give $5OOO to the Tenants’ Protection Society, described by one councillor as a group of vigilantes. After an often emotional debate of 90 minutes, the council decided by 10 votes to seven to overturn a recommendation of its resources and organisation committee that the grant be reduced to $l5O. Earlier, the community development committee had recommended a grant of $2500. A spokesman for the association, Mr Neil Gray, answering questions from councillors, confirmed that one aim of the group was "organised squatting in vacant housing.” “Of course we are against many of your acts. We do not come to you cap in hand
for money,” said Mr Gray. A councillor, Mrs Marie Quinn, said, “It is a bad thing for the council to fund something which is an exercise in confrontation. Surely we do not need people going round like vigilantes.”
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