Hika's million dollar question ...

It's a man and he's a local, most people on main street of Hikurangi agree.
Then ... no, it's a woman, someone insists. Yep, says someone else, that's what he heard, too. "It's definitely a woman".
No, the majority are pretty sure it's a bloke. A Maori man, someone adds. And, no, nobody knows who he is.
"But we'll find out soon enough," says Andrew Gerney, founder of the food bank and trading co-op, Tornado Trading Post.
"It's not the sort of thing you could keep quiet long in Hikurangi."
They are talking about Saturday night's big Lotto prize - $1,034,516 - going to a Hikurangi Four Square customer. Store assistant Ashwini Lal is still smiling two days after the announcement. The shop has been abuzz with customers ever since.
"Everyone is talking about it."
She can't tell us who it is. "No, no, no," she laughs.
But it is a man, he is a Maori chap, he's a local, he always buys his weekly ticket at that shop, and he's not going to stop buying them now, Ashwini tells us.
Outside the store Daniel Shepherd, 11, is busking on his old guitar. He's made a buck or two by midday but, no, he grins, he hasn't had a new millionaire come by and drop a few big ones in the guitar case. People have been generous, though, he says.
How does he think his life might change if he won a cool mill, we ask?
"I'd probably get myself an electric guitar," he says wistfully plucking at his trusty acoustic one.
His parents would probably be able to do up the house.
"Mine would pay off debt, that's the first thing," pipes up Daniel's pavement pal, Cyrus Hughes, 10.
Along by the postbox a long, brown car pulls up. It's Harry and Blanche Clark in their 20-year-old Fairmont. They've lived at Hikurangi for 63 years, and been married the same length of time.
No, Harry says, they didn't win Lotto.
"But if someone had to get it, I'm glad it went to Hikurangi. We aren't a rich place here but it's a good place. There's a lot of community spirit here."
If he won, he says, he'd give some back to Hikurangi in some way ... but he'd never replace his car.
There's a steady stream of people in and out of the bakery. The shop assistant doesn't know who won Lotto. Well, she doesn't know his name - but her sister-in-law was in the Four Square when he brought in his ticket.
Across the road at the pub, the barman says he's had a lot of people coming in and asking if he'd just become a millionaire.
"Because I'm 44, and apparently that's the same age as the guy who won."
Whoever he is.