A rental car company says it will pay out after a Masterton man posted his frustrations on Facebook over an insurance battle after a tourist hit his family car.

Masterton Intermediate School is aiming to get 5000 people together to reclaim the largest haka in the world record and bring it home.

It wasn't his heart attack last year that made Peter Tearle go easy on pumping iron - the 90-year-old blames the pneumonia instead.

Rescuers failed to refloat a whale last night which stranded on a South Wairarapa beach.