Photo: Getty ImagesA Northland man will watch from the road as his wife of 63 years is laid to rest this morning. Under alert level 4 restrictions he is unable to enter the grounds as his wife is buried. "The gravediggers will put my wife to rest at the cemetery and then at 10.30 I'll take her casket to the undertakers. As alert level 3 allows for funerals of up to 10 people, Paul and his family had been planning with the expectation of an alert level shift being announced for midnight on Friday. Ardern said it was unlikely Northland would be kept in the same alert level as Auckland for a long time.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 27, 2021 23:15 UTC