A driver is spoken to at the Urenui checkpoint on Tuesday. Community checkpoints near Taranaki's borders are neither necessary nor desirable, New Plymouth's MP says. Eight iwi banded together to set up checkpoints on Tuesday, with the support of police, after New Zealand's coronavirus alert level dropped to Level 3 at 11.59pm on Monday. SIMON O'CONNOR/STUFF An Iwi checkpoint set up in Urenui on Tuesday will be running for the next few weeks. SIMON O'CONNOR/STUFF Reaction has been mixed to iwi community checkpoints set up in Taranaki.

Source: Stuff April 28, 2020 07:30 UTC