7 Dec 2021

Newmarket shops to close on Saturdays after protests

From First Up, 5:52 am on 7 December 2021

A Newmarket retailer says she'll be closing her doors on Saturdays from now on after anti-vaccine mandate protestors caused havoc over the weekend. Hundreds of protestors gathered in Auckland's Domain for the cancellation of children's cricket matches before heading down Broadway where they forced shoppers to go elsewhere and retailers to shut up shop. And as Ella Stewart reports, it's estimated the protest cost businesses at least 600-thousand dollars on what should have been the busiest shopping day in more than 100 days.