Sheridan Waitai, granddaughter of Saana Murray, with Hirini Waitai.
Sheridan Waitai, granddaughter of Saana Murray, with Hirini Waitai.
The New Zealand Herald is commemorating its 150th birthday on November 13 and we have a month of great reading ahead to celebrate.
Starting Monday is our series on the greatest untold Kiwi stories. Award-winning reporter and photographer David Fisher and Mark Mitchell travelled the country for a month talkingto ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell.
Monday: Spirits Bay, Northland - the story of Sheridan Waitai, raised by one of the country's great campaigners, Saana Murray, to remember a lost people.
Tuesday: Ahipara - a drinker's story which ends as a tale of redemption.