Wellington Mayor Andy Foster faces two more requests for the auditor-general to investigate his council, most-recently for mingling with Chinese community leaders then, two days later, moving to pull funding from their gardens. WCGS on Tuesday emailed the auditor-general alleging Foster undermined good faith after proposing a funding cut that would all-but kill the Chinese Garden in Frank Kitts Park. Supplied Wellington Mayor Andy Foster at Chinese New Year on February 14. Ross Giblin/Stuff Wellington mayor Andy Foster faces a second call for the Auditor-General to investigate. Dome said that there was a signed agreement, from 2014, between the Mayor of Xiamen and the then-Wellington Mayor, to build the gardens.

Source: Stuff February 24, 2021 23:48 UTC