Tangi has observed changes over a forty year period in housing, health and unemployment.
Tangi Teura is originally from Rarotonga but he has lived in Glen Innes for over forty years. He purchased his rented house from NZ Housing Corporation in 1986 which he sold eleven years later as his wife had passed on and his children were ready to leave home. He used to work for Fisher and Paykel in Mount Wellington and is now aged 70 years and retired.

He is actively working in the Glen Innes community as a volunteer with charitable trust Ka Mau Te Wero.

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