College old boy and Petone Comunity Board member Michael Lulich says he was recently contacted by concerned local residents about the state of the buildings and went to have a look.
Mr Lulich found graffiti, smashed windows, kicked in doors and weatherboards, empty bullet shells lying on the ground and one building charred from an arson attack. "I bumped into two police officers who were investigating a complaint about children getting up to no good there".
Mr Lulich says a Ministry spokesman told him security patrols checks on the buildings daily but he wonders if the some of them are now beyond repair. He hoped publicity would encourage the Ministry to take better care of the property.
Sir Ngatata Love (Chairperson of the Port Nicholson Block Settlement) says that iwi has no plans yet of what to do with the site which is part of their settlement agreement with the Crown. Sir Ngatata said "Once we take possession of the site we will come and talk to locals in the same way we are talking with the Miramar community over Shelley Bay".
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