Tainui School pupils who named a northern royal albatross chick born at the Tairoa Head colony in January had a rare encounter with the chick today. Dakota McKenzie and Aleece Hosking (both 9) said they thought of the name Moana after completing a Kapa Haka class. "We do Kapa Haka and we had just finished doing some so we decided to put it in Maori," Dakota said. • Full story in the Otago Daily Times tomorrow "We wanted to call it Ocean, but Ocean didn't sound right.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 09, 2016 04:41 UTC