{"id":641347,"date":"2026-10-26T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641347\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:48:10","slug":"wairoa-mayor-craig-little-questions-parents-after-mahia-youth-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641347\/","title":{"rendered":"Wairoa mayor Craig Little questions parents after Mahia youth disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI do have to wonder where all the parents are &#8230; you\u2019ve got to know where your kids are and what they\u2019re up to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Little had family at Mahia this Labour Weekend who told him the town was \u201cchocka\u201d with holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">He said the disorder was disappointing for locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s such a beautiful community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhat\u2019s happened this weekend, they\u2019ll be pretty grumpy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Acting Inspector Andrew Knox urged parents and guardians to speak to their young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\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<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want the weekend celebrations being marred by the actions of others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI do have to wonder where all the parents are &#8230; you\u2019ve got to know where your kids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,27518,46300,6650,1595,42,6093,80178,10934,43,2551,3766,17146,1534,2848,40,38,41,39,15289,3608,540,1079],"class_list":["post-641347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-asking","tag-broke","tag-craig","tag-disorder","tag-headlines","tag-little","tag-mahia","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-night","tag-parents","tag-questions","tag-saturday","tag-severe","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wairoa","tag-were","tag-where","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641347","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=641347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}