A long-serving Ngāti Porou surf life saver is reconnecting his people with the ocean to turn around the Gisborne region's high drowning statistics.
Peter Boyd has been a surf life saver since 1984, and started Ngāti Porou Surf Life Saving Club six years ago to cover the remote, and dangerous Ōnepoto beach.
Peter Boyd has been a surf life saver since 1984, and started Ngāti Porou Surf Life Saving Club six years ago to cover the remote, and dangerous Ōnepoto beach. Photo: Supplied / Surf Lifesaving NZ
He's been recognised by Surf life Saving New Zealand for building a new surf lifesaving club for his isolated East Coast community, founded on kaupapa from Ngāti Porou. He talks to Susie Ferguson.
