Posts Tagged ‘Mangere’

Church and government team up on housing scheme

Friday, March 21st, 2014

Twenty-two families from overcrowded homes finally have room to breathe in a new housing scheme opened by a Tongan princess in Mangere. Storeman Sione Leha’uli, his wife Fitalika and what were then their two children were living with Mrs Leha’uli’s parents, grandparents, her brother and his wife and two children – 12 people in a Read more

Tongans in Auckland march against same-sex marriage bill

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

The bill to make same-sex marriage legal in Aotearoa New Zealand has prompted about 300 people belonging to Tongan churches in Auckland to join a protest march. Labour MP Louisa Wall’s same-sex marriage bill, aimed at legalising same-sex marriage, passed its first reading in Parliament during August. It is now being considered by a parliamentary Read more