Comments on: Mt Eden’s escalating gang problem

By: merc

merc — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:42:40 +0000

Same out our way (Out West) plus I used to live Mangere East, but the last large scale gang fight I’m aware of was in Ponsonby (KC’s), it’s strange how that world gets so little media focus, I guess because they are kids mostly.
I really admire people who work in this health service area.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:04:35 +0000

funny as it may seem, sadly in central auckland there are gangs of very young people who wear colours and beat the living shit out of each other every chance they get. ie not very funny at all. i work for a health service aimed at young people with severe multiple complex needs and these kids are our caseload. sucks really.

By: merc

merc — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:50:43 +0000

Deeply so and it breaks my heart and others too (there is a great custodian living there) to see buses, cows, cars and people crawling all over the sacred spaces. I grew up on the side of Mount Saint John and it was a blessing that (despite the underground bunkers, like Mt Eden has) you had to walk to go up there.
Still the Mountain will endure long after the people have gone.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:50:43 +0000

Oh, man. I live on the mountain side. In fact, I can walk from my flat to the top of the mountain without crossing any roads. It’s always had a curious quality to it. It’s not quite the “fantastic regional asset” that those in charge reckon. It’s much more complex.

By: merc

merc — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:08:25 +0000

You know Mt Eden was tapu for many many years until it was finally lifted in 19?. Ghosts walk the mountain, Esplanade is virtually on the mountain-side. There has been a lot of death and exploitation on that far stretching mountain, with sad quarrying (often the quarries were worked for political as well as practical reasons by the colonizing power), penal labour, genocide and bloody buses.
If it wasn’t so valuable as a piece of land and the inhabitants not decimated it should at least be handed into the care of the original hapu, however Ngati Whatua took care of that, I believe.