{"id":582904,"date":"2026-08-28T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:58:11","slug":"person-dies-outside-paul-goldsmiths-national-party-office-building-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582904\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies outside Paul Goldsmith\u2019s National Party office building in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The Post is reporting that the man who died was understood to be rough sleeping. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Goldsmith acknowledged the \u201cupsetting situation\u201d in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis will naturally be an extremely upsetting situation for anyone involved, and it would be inappropriate to politicise it, or to comment further. Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The National Party told the Herald to direct queries to police as \u201cthey will be best placed to answer it\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Post is reporting that the man who died was understood to be rough sleeping. Goldsmith acknowledged the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,674,6179,7126,171489,42,78,51030,17318,3556,43,6270,33027,14727,4762,17357,4056,1361,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-582904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-building","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-goldsmiths","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-includes","tag-mps","tag-national","tag-news","tag-office","tag-offices","tag-outside","tag-party","tag-paul","tag-person","tag-that","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}