Beck Lane runs the Point Wells General Store, about an hour s drive north of Auckland CBD and just inside the region s alert level 3 cordon.
When the Auckland snap lockdown was announced late on 27 February, she was left with a cancelled event for the next day and kilos and kilos of leftover fish. So we did a free fish and chips day, it was great, it was fun, I take real issue with having to throw fish out to be honest so the best option was to treat the community.
The event started at 1pm and by 3pm the fish was gone but Beck said although it was a great community event, she couldn t afford to shoulder the cost again.
Beck Lane runs the Point Wells General Store, about an hour s drive north of Auckland CBD and just inside the region s alert level 3 cordon. When the Auckland snap lockdown was announced late on 27 February, she was left with a cancelled event for the next day and kilos and kilos of leftover fish. So we did a free fish and chips day, it was great, it was fun, I take real issue with having to throw fish out to be honest so the best option was to treat the community. The event started at 1pm and by 3pm the fish was gone but Beck said although it was a great community event, she couldn t afford to shoulder the cost again.
New Zealand government negligence led to Auckland’s COVID-19 cluster
New Zealand’s largest city has been in a partial one-week lockdown since Sunday, February 28, following the discovery of new COVID-19 cases linked to Papatoetoe High School in working class South Auckland. The “level 3” lockdown includes the closure of many workplaces and most schools, except for children who cannot be supervised at home. Outside Auckland, the country has “level 2” restrictions in place, which mandate social distancing and contact tracing, and masks on public transport.
By Monday, tens of thousands of tests had identified 15 cases with links to the cluster, the origin of which has still not been found. The first three cases were identified on February 14, including one high school student and their mother, who was employed at LSG SkyChefs at Auckland Airport. There were suspicions that the virus was brought from overseas through the airport, but this is unconfirmed. All the cases are t
Now people were used to lockdowns, there was less of a sense of panic, he said. Two hundred people applied for food parcels in the space of an hour on Monday morning after a post went up on the Buttabean Motivation food bank page. Dave Letele, who runs the Manukau food bank, said the snap lockdown had put a lot of pressure on families who often relied on free school meals to feed their children. Many families would only have enough food in the pantry for one meal a day, he said, but with everyone at home all the time that was quickly used up.
Press Release – Auckland City Mission
The Auckland City Mission has appointed a new City Missioner ahead of the upcoming departure of Chris Farrelly, who has held the position for the last five years.
Board Chair, Joanna Pidgeon, says everyone involved with the Mission will miss Chris’ visionary and compassionate approach.
She says he has much to be proud of, noting his biggest legacy will the Mission’s most ambitious project to date, HomeGround, due to open later this year. The HomeGround precinct is a purpose-built place of healing and transformation, with features including apartments for people experiencing homelessness, community spaces and a health centre.