“It sometimes it makes me think maybe I shouldn’t be doing what I’m doing if it’s going to create so much heartache for us.”
Smith said the building was being rented out and was due to go to another Northland customer in need next week.
The theft has been reported to police, and Smith is also urging the community to help locate the building.
“We do a lot of work for our community in Northland and when things like this happen, it really upsets us,” he said.
It’s the second time a Space King portable building has been stolen from a Northland property.
Eric Monk had been living in a cabin delivered under the Kaikohe-based Whakamanamai Whānau Trust’s “rent-to-bless” scheme called Whare to the Whenua for around six months.
He desperately wants it back “so that we can pick up our building and deliver it to the new person who is in need next week”.
“We have a backlist of people who are after our buildings.
“If a building goes missing it holds up our whole chain of delivery.”
Police have been approached for comment.
Smith urges anyone with information to contact him via Facebook.
Jenny Ling is a news reporter and features writer for the Northern Advocate. She has a special interest in covering roading, lifestyle, business, and animal welfare issues.