Junkyard man seeks new abode

For the past two years, 72-year-old Angus McIntyre has made a south Auckland junkyard his home but now his time is up.

The landowner had allowed McIntyre and his dog Rosie to live at the Papakura property as the yard’s security guards.

But now McIntyre has been served with an eviction notice, dated September 16, and said he may have nowhere to go.

The notice states he has until Saturday to leave.

‘‘You have been given more than enough time to move out of the property,’’ the letter said.

‘‘We need the property and you need to leave by the morning of the 22 of September 2018.

‘‘The gate will be locked up by lunchtime of the 22 of September 2018.’’

Landowner Milad Georges previously told Stuff he was ‘‘just trying to avoid being in the s***.

‘‘Angus is 72 years of age and it’s not good for either of us for him to be here.’’

McIntyre said the place he had organised to move to had fallen through yesterday morning.

He was going to ask a friend if he could stay on his farm in Hunua but if that didn’t work out he said he wasn’t sure what he would do. A locked gate meant McIntyre’s belongings, including the caravan he lives in, were stuck in the junkyard and he wasn’t able to get them out.

‘‘If I offer him some money, he might say: stay longer. I might offer him a hundred to stay another week,’’ he said.

But McIntyre said he wanted out of the junkyard he has been in for ‘‘two years too long’’ and wasn’t surprised to receive the eviction notice. ‘‘I want to push forward to get out and go, I don’t want to stay here.’’

McIntyre said he wasn’t interested in emergency housing, he just wanted to stay in his caravan.