"She may have been in a different party, and she may have lived a completely different life to me," Mr Harawira said, "but Georgina is a forthright advocate for human rights, who teaches us all to be strong in our beliefs ... to never back down from a challenge and to respect all those who want to be positive contributors to our society regardless of sex, race, creed and gender."
Number two: New Masterton SPCA chief defends cat killings
New chief Lloyd Warren put down 20 mostly diseased cats during his first two days on the job, attracting plenty of comments online debating whether it was the right decision.
Number three: Carterton boy's bullying hell
Raybane Hume-Kinzett, 11, tried to strangle himself at school with a skipping rope to end years of torment over a disfiguring affliction. A later article states that he is now doing a lot better.
Number four: Couple told they must wait a year for broadband
Carterton residents Damien Pivac and Ngahina Gillies were told they faced a wait of over a year before they could get broadband service at home. Maybe 2014 will be the year?
Number five: Boy racer mayhem tears up Eketahuna junction
A convoy of boy racers descended on a farming area near Eketahuna to party. They wrecked the sealed road surface by wheel-spinning their cars, much to the dismay of the community.
Number six: Masterton fire call out turns into weed bust
A man with a cannabis grow room operation was busted after it caught on fire. Firefighters attended the scene and discovered the equipment in the grow room had overheated.
Number seven: Terror for blind Masterton woman
A blind woman was terrified when armed police stormed her Masterton home during a drug operation.
Number eight: Cat rescued by firefighters
A black cat that came within a whisker of suffocation in a house fire was saved by Masterton firefighters.
Number nine: Carterton girl one of only 13 in world.
Grace Yeats, 11, was diagnosed with one of the rarest and most severe brain diseases ever recorded in the world.
Number 10: Swindled Masterton couple sell up
The Masterton home of an elderly couple - who fell for an overseas lottery scam and then borrowed repeatedly from friends to pay the people scamming them - was finally put on the market.
