More than 70 seasonal workers from Tonga are stranded in New Zealand after their scheduled flight home this week was cancelled.
Air New Zealand says the repatriation flight from Auckland to Nukua'lofa on Thursday has been put on hold due to ash clouds caused by last weekend's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption in the Kingdom.
My colleague Christine Rovoi has been speaking with RSE workers and employers. Bula Christine so still tough times for Tongan seasonal workers here?
Tongan RSE workers in Motueka. Photo: Supplied/Charlotte Bedford
