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Group support manager Peter Zimmer, when speaking to Horizons on Wednesday, said organisations like St John’s and Fire and Emergency New Zealand got funding from different sources. LandSAR got some funding for support stuff, but had to fundraise for almost all its money through things like sausage sizzles. Zimmer brought a mule wheel – a stretcher designed for rough terrain – into the meeting, saying buying one cost about $6000. “That’s an awful lot of sausages to sell.” Many LandSAR members had their own equipment to use, but it may not be exactly what they needed, Zimmer said. “They’ll maybe use their farm raincoat when going out.”
Whānau heartbroken over death at Northland s Cable Bay ruled preventable by coroner
11 Apr, 2021 05:30 PM
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Kaeo-born Wairongoa Renata was 54 when he drowned at Cable Bay. Photo / supplied
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
The partner of a soldier who died at a Far North beach trying to rescue children swept out to sea is heartbroken to learn the tragedy could have been prevented. Wairongoa Renata, 54, better known as Magoo or Tickety-Boo, drowned at Cable Bay in January 2018 after swimming out to help his daughter, then aged 11, and other children in distress in the water.