A woman has received a racist voice message on her phone from a car dealership she visited in Tauranga.
Rotorua nurse Narrelle Newdick told TVNZ she discovered the racist message on her phone after she had visited the Farmer Auto Village, where she found a car she was keen to purchase.
But after taking the car for a test-run, Ms Newdick says she discovered a voice message left on her phone which appears to be a conversation between two of the car dealers that didn't realise they were being recorded.
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"You little Māori... it keeps going to voice mail," one of the car dealers can be heard saying.
"Tell her don't be a f*****g clever Māori," another says.
Ms Newdick told TVNZ the message left her in disbelief, and questioned what the car dealer's comments actually meant.
"What does he even mean by that 'don't be a f***** clever Māori'?"
She has since been issued an apology by the company, which is reportedly introducing a cultural and historical awareness programme in response to the incident.
"We are absolutely devastated that an employee within our used car department at Farmer Motor Group has made some offensive comments," said managing director of the company Mike Farmer.
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