Chartered plane delivers Starlink devices to Tairawhiti

From Morning Report, 7:52 am on 17 February 2023

Ngāti Porou iwi members from around New Zealand and the world have come together to deliver urgently required communications equipment into the remote East Cape.

The iwi's commercial arm - Ngāti Porou Holdings - in collaboration with other iwi and private enterprises has chartered a plane loaded with Starlink Satelite kits for Tairāwhiti which has been hammered by Cyclone Gabrielle

Reporter Robin Martin spoke to board member Bailey Mackey. 

He began by asking Mackey how the mission came together.