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Brittany Keogh05:00, May 03 2021 ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF George Jenkins, from Kāpiti hapū Puketapu, on what the land at Kāpiti Coast Airport means to him and other descendants of the original owners, who are fighting to get it back. (First published September 2020) Kāpiti Airport shut for most of Sunday for a historic event which saw mana whenua visit wetlands on the site for the first time in more than 80 years. The land, at Paraparaumu, was taken by the Government from the Puketapu hapū of Te Āti Awa ki Kāpiti in 1939 under the Public Works Act. The 125 hectare block on which the airport sits, was later sold to a private company and is currently at the centre of a Treaty claim. ....
ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF George Jenkins, from Kāpiti hapū Puketapu, on what the land at Kāpiti Coast Airport means to him and other descendants of the original owners, who are fighting to get it back. (First published September 2020) Government ministers have been asked to intervene to secure the uncertain future of Kāpiti Airport, with local mayors raising concerns that a closure could hamper the response to emergencies. Worried about speculation that the airport s owners planned to close it, Porirua Mayor Anita Baker, Kāpiti Mayor K Gurunathan and representatives from the Save Kāpiti Airport group and Kāpiti Aero Club met with Transport Minister Michael Wood on Tuesday morning to request his support for keeping the airport open. ....
Johanna McIntosh/Supplied Johanna McIntosh says her whole life has been put on hold by delays to the NXN Kingsland project. Real estate listings and promotional material seen by Stuff also state the project was originally due to be completed in late 2018. References to that move-in date can also be found on the website of Templeton Group’s founder and chief executive Nigel McKenna. “My life has been in limbo, I feel like I can’t do anything. It puts everything on hold, you can’t plan,” McIntosh said. She has rented while waiting for her apartment to be completed, and keeps most of her belongings in a storage unit. ....
ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF George Jenkins, from Kāpiti hapū Puketapu, on what the land at Kāpiti Coast Airport means to him and other descendants of the original owners, who are fighting to get it back. (First published September 2020) A medical flight bound for Kāpiti Airport had to be diverted to Palmerston North, a 90-minute drive away, after Kāpiti Airport was closed because of a security threat. Stuff understands the plane was transporting a woman from Nelson so that she could be with her seriously ill baby, who was being treated at Wellington Hospital. The newborn is believed to have died before the mother arrived at the hospital. ....