Dean has been chief executive of Pacific Trust Otago since 2014, having served an initial term from November 2010 to June 2011. He was the general manager of the Pacific Island Advisory and Cultural Trust in Invercargill from 2011 to 2014. Prior to those roles, he was the principal of Kew School and the founding principal of New River Primary School when it merged. He has helped establish an early childhood centre for Pacific children in 2001 and an after-school programme in the 1990s. Although his work is now in Otago, Dean still lives in Invercargill, where he moved in the 1960s from the Cook Islands.
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Pirates-Old Boys player Cory Hoffman-Grey, left, eyeing up the Marist players about to tackle him during the Southland premier club rugby game at Surrey Park. But it was the way Pirates-Old Boys won on Saturday which would have sounded some alarm bells around the premier division. Marist had just come off a victory over Woodlands but by halftime against Pirates-Old Boys found itself trailing 19-3. It was extended to 26-3 early in the second half through second five-eighth Desmond Spooner’s second try of the day, before Marist finally started to halt the Pirates-Old Boys onslaught. The visitors scored two tries to Michael Moodie and Allan Gillies to bring it back to 26-15 and provide a glimmer of hope for the Marist faithful in attendance that a comeback victory was a possibility.
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Hugo OâMeara, 4, of Drummond, left, and Tom Johnstone, 102-years-old, cut the cake at the Drummond Rugby Club s centenary celebrations at Drummond on Saturday. On hand to cut the club s birthday cake on Saturday was 102-year-old Tom Johnstone who played for Drummond in 1938 when it won the central sub-union senior grade. Johnstone went off to World War II but returned, and he continued playing for Drummond. His last game in 1948 coincided with Drummond winning the central competition. Johnstone said the centenary was a marvellous weekend and organisors had done a very good job of putting together the celebrations
Among the hardest hit will be Gorge Road [19 per cent or $387 increase]; Nightcaps [18 per cent or $430 increase]; Stewart Island [18 per cent or $344; Orepuki [17 per cent or $197]; Tuatapere [17 per cent or $431]; Ohai [17 per cent or $387] and Tokanui [17 per cent or $330]. At the other end of the scale, Thornbury faces an average four per cent, or $64 increase, Browns a five per cent increase [$88], and Woodlands a 6 per cent increase [$98]. Ohai resident Asha Carr said she believed the council was tone deaf to propose such high hikes for many people, given some were already struggling financially and with stress due to losing jobs during Covid.