Pōhutukawa Drive is a road already ransacked by Cyclone Gabrielle but now they have another foe to face thieves. "We're going through this whole trauma and people are taking the donated food and clothing that has been left for us. "It's despicable taking advantage of people at their highest time of need, at their lowest," he told Newshub. While Newshub was there a vehicle that was told to turn around blasted on through the checkpoint, so they called the police. And back at the Eskdale roadblock, police did arrive quickly and were able to move the suspicious vehicle on.

Source: Stuff February 19, 2023 23:33 UTC