Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playManukau councillor Efeso Collins accused staff of racial discrimination at Tuesday night's swearing in ceremony at Auckland Town Hall. Collins said his wife, four-year-old daughter and elders were initially told that they could not sit where they were because it was reserved for council guests. Mayor Phil Goff told the Herald today he was incredibly concerned to hear about the incident and had passed on his concerns to Collins. In a statment, the council's general manager of democracy services, Marguerite Delbet, said: "When Fa'anana Efeso Collins informed me of the way his family were treated at the inauguration ceremony, I was shocked and appalled." Collins' family returned to the first governing body meeting in the town hall yesterday to hear the new councillor deliver his maiden speech.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 02, 2016 20:49 UTC