I’m very excited, cos I just found this article on the Herald’s website:
P-lab found in old dairy factory
Police have found a methamphetamine lab at the old Matangi Dairy factory.
Waikato police found chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, or P, at the factory east of Hamilton.
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A specialist Auckland P-lab team has been called in to investigate the factory and the area is being guarded by armed police.
See, this is where I grew up. My house was about 500m from the dairy factory. Of course, back in the ’80s Matangi was a bleak, dull place. Back then it would have been really exciting to have the crack Auckland P-lab team swoop down on the place. (But, man, my mum would have worried.)
I don’t even know what Matangi is like any more. When I moved to Hamilton in 1992, Matangi was slowly filling up with “lifestylers” – the sorts of people who worked in Hamilton and lived in the countryside. But maybe it’s gone all ghetto now.
I think I’ll have to write some hardcore gangsta rhymes about my childhood.
September 7, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Hey there,
Our company has recently moved to the matangi dairy factory, the place is still peaceful and still a little old country town, i used to live just down the road from there till we sold our house.
The factory has changed alot, although it does need a bit of a paint job here and there but its coming together nicely, so i thought to give you a little up date about the old matangi area.
Thanks
Toni
September 11, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Thanks, Toni. Indeed a lot can change in four years, or in 30 years.