'A warning shot' on the East Coast

'A warning shot' on the East Coast

The ancestral mountain of Te Araroa on the East Cape is still moving nearly two weeks after a devastating storm brought slips crashing onto roads and homes. “Scary? I wouldn’t say scary, no,” says Robin Hapeta, whose family home is in the shadow of the towering Whetumatarau. “I go back to that saying of the old people, ‘I am the land and the land is me’. If the land is moving it’s telling a story, really. Te Araroa local Robin Hapeta says that …