(File photo) Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi
A person has died after being hit by a falling tree in Canterbury.
Emergency services were called to a private property in Goughs Bay, Banks Peninsula, about 9:45pm on Saturday, police said.
The person was found dead at the scene.
NEMA tested its mobile phone alert system shortly after 6pm on Sunday evening.
Two men who got into trouble in the water at an Auckland pool on Saturday night had to be resuscitated by staff and a visiting doctor.
A Bluebridge ferry passenger says people were plunged into darkness when a ship briefly lost power coming into Wellington Harbour.
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