Showdown in Onehunga as businesses clash over $1 million targeted rate increase

Showdown in Onehunga as businesses clash over $1 million targeted rate increase
Onehunga businesses voted for a $1m targeted rate, but only just. (Image: Ingolfson/public domain)
Garth Bray
It's high noon at the Onehunga Mall, and a proverbial lone gunslinger steps out of the shadows, hands twitching and ready to face down the local sheriff's plan ... and find out if the good townsfolk are with him. Or with her. The sheriff in this lurid tale, Onehunga Business Association (OBA) general manager Amanda Wellgreen, says: “He's going around and gathering what he describes as a posse.”The gunslinger, Andrew Body, confirms: “I'm organising a posse to turn up at the AGM to vote down their resolution...

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