Reset on the maunga

Two people who challenged the administrative body for Auckland’s volcanic cone reserves have successfully changed the way the authority operates, Newsroom reveals. Averil and Warwick Normal spent two and a half years on a legal rollercoaster over Auckland’s maunga. People would later wonder why the Normans, a successful business couple, would risk the expense of a judicial review. But they’d both spent their childhoods on and around the city’s maunga.