Auckland state of emergency extended

Auckland state of emergency extended
Dan Brunskill
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has extended the state of emergency for a further seven days and apologised for aspects of the initial response. Civil Defence Emergency Management advised the mayor to extend the state of local emergency at 9am this morning and it was signed at 11.30am. The existing declaration was set to expire this evening.Having the declaration in place allows relevant authorities to issue legally binding instructions to agencies and the public if that is required.The mayor said those powers have “barely needed to be us...