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Tireless campaigner dies

Aki Arconnehi Paipper, who tirelessly and successfully campaigned for re-naming the former Clive River to Te Awa o Mokotūāraro, died this week, aged 80 years old. Only two weeks ago Aki contacted BayBuzz thrilled to say the New Zealand Geographic Board had ruled that the Clive river’s name was now officially changed.   It was a battle that Aki and her whanau had […]

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