Cancer sufferer turns to tradition
Hokianga school principal Tanya Filia was given two months to live, nearly three years ago. Filia has been staving off cancer since that time with traditional Maori healing and natural therapies. She is also using her experience to challenge the way people with terminal diagnoses are treated in the health and welfare systems. Her journey is the subject of a short documentary, He Oranga Pumau, by Hokianga film-maker Jessie McVeagh, which was presented at Parliament in June. It will be shown to health professionals and the public, alongside a Q&A panel of cancer sufferers and health workers, tomorrow at The Butter Factory in Whangārei, from 6pm to 7.30pm.
Rain not too heavy
Heavy rain forecast for the upper North Island tomorrow is unlikely to hit Northland too hard. Northland is likely to get rain today, with a possibility of it being heavy and thundery, and showers are expected tomorrow. The MetService has forecast heavy rain from Auckland to Gisborne, and Nelson. A front in the Tasman Sea is expected to move eastwards across northern and central New Zealand today, then stall over the Bay of Plenty tomorrow. The front brings strong northeasterlies and heavy rain to the central and upper North Island, and to western Nelson. The heaviest falls are likely from Auckland across to Bay of Plenty and northern Gisborne.
Kauri dieback meeting
