A national TV talent contest is coming to Wanganui, seeking our best singers.
The popular Maori Television singing competition Homai Te Pakipaki will hold auditions on Sunday - and it is all thanks to local woman Cilla Te Ua Wiri.
The former contestant on Homai Te Pakipaki asked the show's producers in Auckland to come to the River City and check out the talent.
"I said, 'Please come to Wanganui - we've got a lot of talent but a lot of people can't afford to come up to Auckland'," Ms Te Ua Wiri told the Chronicle.
Ms Te Ua Wiri, who took herself and others up to auditions in Auckland in 2013, has been beating her feet around town this week to get the word out.