A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A French Polynesian delegation arrived in Gisborne yesterday for two days of events including a visit to Ilminster Intermediate tomorrow.
Lead parliamentary educator William Davies, who is accompanying them, said the delegation of senior politicians and officials would be spending part of their time in Gisborne to learn more about
an important part of their link to New Zealand and its history.
Tahitian navigator and priest Tupaia travelled with Captain James Cook on the HMS Endeavour to New Zealand.
One of the landing sites for the ship was Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay in 1769, and a flotilla will also be arriving in Gisborne (in October) to help mark 250 years of the first onshore contact between Maori and Europeans.
The flotilla will include an outrigger canoe, or va’a, which is coming from Tahiti.
