AUCKLAND: Around 107 Prominent Aucklanders including Sir Graham Henry, Neil Finn, Sir Michael Fay and businessman Gary Paykel have signed an open letter in the New Zealand Herald. They don’t want a 100-metre extension of the Bledisloe Wharf to go ahead, which would narrow the Waitemata Harbour and block some views.
Spokesperson for the port company said that “a protest by dozens of prominent Aucklanders against an expansion of a downtown wharf is too late”.he added that the development would happen and it was urgently needed.Ships were getting bigger and if the wharf was not extended the port would have to turn them away.
He said “Auckland is growing really fast, the population is increasing and all of those people buy stuff from overseas and it’s got to come in somewhere.”
