McCallum Brothers is an

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-based

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and

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supplier. Its main products are sand and

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(of which it quarries up to 30,000 tonnes per year). The company mainly supplies building and roading companies in the

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of New Zealand, and it also provides sand for

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. It was founded in 1904, and is still in family ownership to this day.''Sand supplier wins right to continue'' - ''Business North'', July 2007, Page 31 The company has recently (2007) won a case in the

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which will allow it to continue extracting sand from the

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Pakiri Pakiri is a locality in Auckland, in the former Rodney District of New Zealand. Leigh is about to the south-east. The Pakiri River flows through the area and into the Hauraki Gulf to the north-east. The area is named for the Ngāti Wai chief, ...

embayment, with the court agreeing that the removal was environmentally sustainable, mainly due to the argument that the removal would not exceed the natural buildup of new sand, a point that had been contested by various local opponents and the

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. McCallum Brothers itself also notes that the use of its own fleet of ships to deliver their product to the mostly coastal-area delivery locations around the Auckland area helps reduce traffic issues and improve sustainability. To reduce dependence on the Pakiri area, the company is currently intending to gain permission to remove sand from the

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, from where the sand would be transported to the

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. The extraction area is however historically considered dangerous for ships due to the local weather and sea conditions, which have wrecked or grounded many ships over the years.

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