As part of RNZ's 2020 election coverage we're looking at some of the communities who are part of the country's changing face and identity.
Dominic Godfrey visited one of small town New Zealand's fastest growing Pacific communities in Oamaru where around 200 families have moved in recent decades.
Pasifika now make up 20 percent of the town's 13,000 people, compared to Auckland's 15 percent.
