Concerns raised over public drinking

A Ngatai Road resident has raised concerns about people drinking in a public rest area after herself and her children were verbally abused on more than one occasion.

The concerned resident says they endure noise and disturbances from teenagers and grown adults alike having parties at the Maxwell's Road rest area.


Maxwell's Road rest area is not a liquor ban area.

'They often start from before lunch time and drink into the night,” she says. 'They fight with each other, break glass, leave rubbish lying around and then drive off.

'My kids play in our front yard and have to watch these people acting in an unsociable way.”

She says some people are often too scared to walk past from the fear of these people yelling abuse at them.

Senior Sergeant Rob Glencross says unless people are drinking in a liquor ban area, no offence has been committed.

He says the Maxwell Road rest area is not a liquor ban area.

'Any concerns about behaviour (disorder, fighting etc) should be addressed to the police in the first instance,” says Rob. 'For any noise (music etc), Council are the first point of contact for their noise control people.”

People can report complaints to Tauranga Police Station on: 577 4300. For anything that is an emergency, people should call 111.

Alternatively, any suspicious activity can be left anonymously via the Crimestoppers line on: 0800 555 111.

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4 comments

Totally Agree

Posted on 03-03-2015 14:00 | By festino lente

It is now the whole maxwell road reserve area. Both sides of chapel st. The council installed bbqs, allowed the area to have two liquor stores and a super market with liquor within 500metres of the site, and wham almost daily folk now sit about drinking it up. Cars doing burnouts, freedom campers using the public facilities as they dont have self contained vehicles. A significant change from what was a very very family orientated area.


heres a fix

Posted on 03-03-2015 15:14 | By karlpenlington

make it a liquor ban area and then the cops can do something about it


@ festino lente

Posted on 03-03-2015 19:16 | By BullShtAlert

Sorry but there have been two liquor outlets in Bureta for many many years, a hotel and a liquor shop. Don't blame them. The real change is the type of people who frequent the area. Police need to crack down on them hard. Don't penalise normal people who enjoy a quiet drink. Get stuck into the trash drunks.


Funny How Liquor Outlets Get Blame

Posted on 04-03-2015 08:47 | By tabatha

I often wonder why young people, that is what the article seems to say, get the blame followed by Liquor Outlets. Perhaps it lies once again with their elders who tell them no drinking no mates etc. Or is it they have become of age and have not been educated on how to drink and behave, oops their parents behave the same. Society needs to educate not blame for all the action. Drunks have always been around and can remember the 6 o'clock swill and drunks sleeping it off on the Strand back in the 1950's, nothing new but more people.


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