Super City get-together

The five people appointed to design Auckland's Super City met informally for the first time in Auckland yesterday.

It was smiles all round with Local Government Minister Rodney Hide and associate minister John Carter, but the Auckland Transition Agency faces a daunting task.

Agency chairman Mark Ford said the first job was to get a team together and start work.

Other members are lawyer Miriam Dean, QC, accountant and BNZ chairman John Waller, former Rodney Mayor John Law and businessman and former Maori Television chairman Wayne Walden.