Families in a quiet Auckland neighbourhood were woken by the racket of a noisy concrete pour at 5.30am as the city's frenzied building boom reaches fever pitch.
Workers used their vehicle headlights to pump concrete on to the Housing New Zealand construction site before daylight on Wednesday morning, waking adults and children in Jennings St, Jersey Ave and Newcastle Tce, Mt Albert.
Residents started a petition to complain - the latest of several complaints about builders around Auckland starting before dawn and working late into the night to keep up with demand.
