Video / NZ HeraldNorthland police are sending holidaymakers home if they're caught breaching lockdown rules but do not plan on setting up checkpoints while the whole country is at alert level 4. Police set up roadblocks at Northland's southern border during the Auckland lockdown in February this year, but at that time Northland and Auckland were at different alert levels. Senior Sergeant Brian Swann, of Northland police, said compliance had on the whole been "very good". "Quite a number" of funeral-goers had been at the address for several days, including before the alert level shift. On Thursday Ngāti Kura hapū announced road access to the beach at Matauri Bay was closed during alert level 4.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 19, 2021 17:03 UTC