MMH - Marsden Maritime Holdings

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It's going to happen it is just a matter of the timing!
Various (ex) heavyweights on tonights TV1 news were softening up the public for a possible port shift on tonights TV1 news.
Helen Clarke, John Key and Sir Bob Harvey were all lobbying for a shift of most of Auckland Ports functions sneering at how the prime land is being used as a car park.
Their case is that shifting most of the ports functions to mainly Northport plus Tauranga will be "financially and visually reclaiming the harbour". That is hard to argue with considering
Ports of Auckland bad recent record financially, health and safety and public mandate wise! Goff when interviewed procrastinated but said he wasn't opposed to the port moving.
I read all three of the reports by Brown a Northland businessman who is behind the lobbying. It is a cause with ample justification!

AS per the weekends comments in the Auckland fish wrapper, there is a very good chance that when the PoA moves to Nthland that Maori will lodge a Treaty claim on the now not needed land , so do we still think that moving the port is a great idea ?

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Considering the PORT sits all on reclaimed land, there must be scope to to launch a counter claim, for improvements.

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Anyway, any Maori claim on POA land will be successful because of the following logic.

Some years ago, Hemi & Hamish were working together in Downtown Queen St, laying new fibre optic cables.

They dug down 1 metre, and discovered an abandoned 1900 era telephone cable.
See, says Hamish, that proves what an advanced society colonisation introduced to NZ.

I see says Hemi, lets go to the opposite side of the Street, and see what we discover.
They dug down 1.5 metres, then Hamish says to Hemi, there's nothing here !
See says Hemi, that proves what an advanced society Maori are, we had cordless 200 years before the pakeha got here!

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Considering the PORT sits all on reclaimed land, there must be scope to to launch a counter claim, for improvements.

So was the old railway station, half of Stanley St and all of the railway land that is now in the hands of the Orakei Maori !!!!

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See what Len Brown's inappropriate use of the Ngati Whatua room led to!

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It's going to happen it is just a matter of the timing!
Various (ex) heavyweights on tonights TV1 news were softening up the public for a possible port shift on tonights TV1 news.
Helen Clarke, John Key and Sir Bob Harvey were all lobbying for a shift of most of Auckland Ports functions sneering at how the prime land is being used as a car park.
Their case is that shifting most of the ports functions to mainly Northport plus Tauranga will be "financially and visually reclaiming the harbour". That is hard to argue with considering
Ports of Auckland bad recent record financially, health and safety and public mandate wise! Goff when interviewed procrastinated but said he wasn't opposed to the port moving.
I read all three of the reports by Brown a Northland businessman who is behind the lobbying. It is a cause with ample justification!

The car park issue could be resolved economically by diverting the car carrying ships to Marsden Point and leaving the rest of the port activity where it is thus keeping the Auckland waterfront away from speculative property developers.

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And if some have their way, and get a stadium down there, guess what will surround it?
A Carpark!
Doh!

Wont be good for the view either...

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And if some have their way, and get a stadium down there, guess what will surround it?
A Carpark!
Doh!

Wont be good for the view either...

Not if ACC has its way - aren't they getting rid of the downtown carpark?

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Mayor van Gogh wouldn't do such a thing would he?

Some say he should truck off.

Others say he should be railroaded...

Others say he should be re Ported.

He may paint himself into a corner...

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For those interested…paralysis by analysis comes to mind. But I guess we do have to get it right. If “we” could just get that rail spur built I think Northport could start to more efficiently take some load off POA.

Where, why and how? The Auckland port debate heats up
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12442612