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Horizons Regional Council urged to establish Māori wards

Horizons Regional Council urged to establish Māori wards 29 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read Three-quarters of those surveyed favour Māori wards for Horizons Regional Council, chairwoman Rachel Keedwell says. Photo / Supplied Three-quarters of those surveyed favour Māori wards for Horizons Regional Council, chairwoman Rachel Keedwell says. Photo / Supplied Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron Ruapehu district resident Fiona Kahukura Chase drove all the way from Taumarunui to Palmerston North to encourage Horizons Regional Council to have Māori wards at its next election. She was instrumental in getting Maōri wards

Calls to cememorate long-forgotten King Country railway disaster

A view of the overturned train AB748 at Ōngarue in the King Country in 1923. A regional councillor has called for a long-forgotten railway disaster in the King Country to be officially commemorated. When the Auckland-to-Wellington overnight express AB 748 ploughed into a fresh landslip in Ōngarue, on July 6, 1923, it killed 17 passengers and changed New Zealand history. The incident set a then record of fatalities; transformed medical services at nearby Taumarunui and prompted the almost immediate modernization of trains using the Main Trunk Line. With the centenary of the disaster looming, Horizons Regional Councillor Weston Kirton wants to see the tragedy commemorated, with names of those who perished set into a monument near the crash site.

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