Covid 19: Waitangi Day, Ruapekapeka events will go ahead
27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Former Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi O Ngāpuhi chairwoman and Treaty Negotiations Minister Andrew Little hongi at Waitangi last year. There will be less of this, this year due to Covid. Photo / File
Mikaela Collins is a reporter for the Northern Advocatemikaela.collins@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat
There will be a heightened sense of precaution at commemorations for Waitangi Day and the Battle of Ruapekapeka - but both events are still going ahead, despite the latest Covid case in Northland.
The recent positive Covid-19 case in the region prompted questions around whether the annual events at Waitangi - which can attract up to 30,000 people - would be called off, along with the commemorations marking 175 years since the Battle of Ruapekapeka.
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Covid 19: Northland checkpoint group keeping mum on location, timing
27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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A member of Tai Tokerau Border Control talks to a motorist at the Waiomio checkpoint in March last year. Photo / John Stone
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A Northland iwi group is keeping mum about when and where it plans to set up Covid checkpoints, saying it doesn t want to trigger a rush of people heading north before they re in place.
Tai Tokerau Border Control founder Hone Harawira said on Tuesday the group was going to resurrect the Covid-19 checkpoints set up during last year s lockdown because not enough was being done to protect Northland s most vulnerable people.
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