{"id":641159,"date":"2026-10-25T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641159\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:00:13","slug":"mahia-disorder-police-respond-to-incidents-involving-hundreds-of-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641159\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahia disorder: Police respond to incidents involving hundreds of young people"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police will remain in Mahia for the rest of the long weekend and are asking holidaymakers to help keep everyone safe. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

Glass bottles were thrown at a police vehicle as officers dealt with several disorder incidents involving hundreds of young people in Mahia last night. <\/p>\n

Police said many of those involved appeared intoxicated, while several fires were deliberately lit on the beach.<\/p>\n

\n Acting Inspector Andrew Knox urged parents and guardians
\n to speak to their young people.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not out to be the fun police, but this behaviour just isn\u2019t going to end well for anyone,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want the weekend celebrations being marred by the actions of others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[68692,44933,1595,9637,42,24176,10116,29819,685,80178,43,2551,1118,23421,384,675,4491,13109,25447,61,40,38,41,39,6845,3608,102,4741],"class_list":["post-641159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bottles","tag-dealt","tag-disorder","tag-glass","tag-headlines","tag-hundreds","tag-incidents","tag-involving","tag-last","tag-mahia","tag-news","tag-night","tag-of","tag-officers","tag-people","tag-police","tag-respond","tag-several","tag-thrown","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vehicle","tag-were","tag-with","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641159","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=641159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}