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Maori candidate determined

Updated at 7:21 am on 16 September 2010

A Maori candidate for the Auckland super city council says it will be a difficult task to represent the wide variety of Maori opinion, but she is up to it.

Waina Emery is the chair of the Wiri Licensing Trust. She led demonstrations against the unrestrained growth liquor outlets in south Auckland.

She says the Papakura-Manurewa ward she is standing in, contains a high proportion of Maori, who would otherwise be unrepresented.

She told Waatea News:

"Unless we come through in this way, Maori is not going to be represented at that table."

Ms Emery said she was also motivated to stand because there was no other female candidate for the Papakura Manurewa ward.

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