12 Jun 2024

Around the motu : Libby Kirkby McLeod in Hamilton

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 12 June 2024
Clockwise from top left, Thomas Phillips, Jayda Jin, Ember Phillips and  Maverick Callum-Phillips.

Photo: Supplied / NZ Police

Police are offering an $80,000 reward for information on missing Marokopa man Tom Phillips and his three children, the cost of having a weekend burial in South Waikato could be about to skyrocket. And for the first time in decades, the critically-threatened Mahoenui giant wētā has been bred in captivity, at a new centre especially set up for the task.

Libby Kirkby-McLeod  is RNZ's Waikato Reporter