A security guard was trying to evict some young boys from the area, as they had been skateboarding in the area out the front of EB games, Kmart and Prouds. 

The boys were refusing to move, and were belligerent and very rude to the security guard. 

The guard made a phone call, presumably to the local police, the boys moved along, only to sit out the front of Noni B and harass the guard again. 

I was there at least 20 minutes and in that whole time I saw the guard behave in a calm and professional manner, while I did not see the local police arrive at all. 

These boys would have been in their early teens so, at 1.45 on a Tuesday afternoon, should have been in school. 

It is difficult to understand why council is doing so much to try to bring business and customers back into the CBD through their infrastructure currently being built and planned, when people are being turned off coming into the CBD if this what they are confronted with while trying to shop. 

I expect these boys would have been noted as being absent from their respective schools, as none seemed old enough to be in an apprenticeship, so where are the parents and care givers and why are these boys able to roam the mall on skateboards behaving as they please?

Kate Smith, Rutherford