PHOTO: Cooks Beach, Coromandel. Photo credit: Getty
A small Coromandel beach community is furious that outsiders are turning up to their holiday homes for the weekend, despite the lockdown.
A Cooks Beach resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, believes about 70 holiday houses have become occupied in recent days.
People are turning up with boats and kayaks and have boasted to locals that there are no police on the roads to stop them from arriving, he said.
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The resident said the new arrivals could put strain on the one dairy in the community and may risk the community’s health.
“If they do get sick, it’s the locals who have to look after them – the volunteer ambulance and the volunteer fire service – so you’re putting those locals at risk too,” he said.
“Instead of doing what the Government told them to do, they are flouting the laws, driving back and forth and generally having a good time.”
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