16 Mar 2021

Government stole farm from town, locals claim

From Morning Report, 8:42 am on 16 March 2021

How do officials in Wellington come to take a small farm off a struggling school in Taihape, when they said they wouldn't sell it if the children still used it?

The local MP, and the former principal and school board chair all say it amounts to the government stealing the farm from the town.

Phil Pennington has the second of a two-part report.