Pita Paraone laid to rest in Motatau

From Checkpoint, 5:47 pm on 29 August 2019

'An honest politician and the most civil of servants'. That was just one of the tributes paid to Ngāti Hine elder and Waitangi organiser, Pita Paraone, who died earlier this week.

The three-term New Zealand First MP was farewelled at his home marae of Motatau in the Bay of Islands.

RNZ Northland reporter Lois Williams was there.