30 Nov 2022

Hut mysteriously burns down in Te Urewera, despite injunction

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 30 November 2022

A hut has mysteriously burned down in Te Urewera, despite a court injunction preventing further hut destruction.

Te Uru Taumatua, the operating arm of iwi Ngāi Tūhoe was actively dismantling huts until the High Court told it to stop.

But just weeks later, one of the huts has burned to the ground. Our reporter Tom Kitchin has more.