13 Nov 2019

Annie's Corner: One woman's fight for her Hamilton community

12:30 pm on 13 November 2019

Annie Williams is Poet’s Corner’s wahine toa. She knows everyone, and everyone knows her. Every year, members of the Mongrel Mob bring her a Christmas hamper. Visitors walk in unannounced, sometimes just to sit at her table and kōrero.

Poet’s Corner is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the country, and has been for 60 years. But Annie refuses to give up on it

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