We would like to pay tribute to a Great man, a Pioneer, a Leader, a Father, a Mentor, a Musician, a Husband and more.
Papali i Dr. Pita Ulitau Taouma
Papali’i Dr. Pita Taouma is the head of the Malietoa Pouesi family in Aotearoa/Niu Sila. He is most well-known as a dentist who served our community for many years, first in Samoa as the head of dentistry at the hospital in Matautu, Apia and then for many years as a dentist here in Aukilani.
Papali’i was first sent to Niu Sila to take up a scholarship at Whangarei Boys High School at the age of 14. He spent these years schooling while also traveling to Aukilani during holidays to spend time with family, mostly in and around the Ponsonby area.
Papali’i then went to Otago University to study dentistry – a profession which ran in the family as his father Tofa Fesula’i Taouma Leteletaneolevao was also one of a group of seven dentists originally trained in the craft in Samoa.
During his time at Otago, Papal
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THE PLACE
God bless New Zealand. In an act of divine, if delayed, intervention, the trans-Tasman bubble has inflated and we can all feel a little less cloistered. I ve reserved three nights at The Convent Hotel, a 22-room boutique hotel in inner-city Auckland, on the first day of quarantine-free flights from Australia where, as it transpires, I m the first Australian guest since its opening late last year.
THE LOCATION
The Convent is a visual highlight on what is an otherwise prosaic section of the Great North Road which runs through Grey Lynn, an emerging trendy inner-city suburb of New Zealand s largest city. It s not far from the much more posh and established Ponsonby with its lively, restaurant and cafe-filled main street. The small and less remarkable Grey Lynn shopping centre is short walk away with central Auckland an easy Uber or bus ride (take a mask) away.