{"id":146649,"date":"2025-11-21T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:45:14","slug":"kaitaia-homicide-northlanders-invited-to-remember-businessman-monty-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146649\/","title":{"rendered":"Kait\u0101ia homicide: Northlanders invited to remember businessman Monty Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family were planning a private farewell but invited the community to a public memorial at Kait\u0101ia\u2019s Te Ahu Centre on Wednesday, November 26 from 11am.<\/p>\n

This would provide a \u201cchance for everyone to gather, remember and reflect together\u201d, with everyone welcome, the obituary read.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn lieu of flowers please donate to the Kait\u0101ia Lions Club<\/a>, in support of our local organisations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among those paying tribute to Knight<\/a> was Northland Regional Council chairman Pita Tipene, who recognised his business acumen over many years as a retailer in several fields, including jewellery, and as a winemaker.<\/p>\n

Knight represented his community with stints on the Northland Regional Council and Far North District Council.<\/p>\n

\"MontyMonty Knight, whose full name is Alister Montgomery Knight, spearheaded winemaking in the Far North, as well as running retail and jewellery businesses in Kait\u0101ia.<\/p>\n

He represented the constituency of Te Hiku from February 2015, after being elected in a byelection following the death of former councillor Dennis Bowman, Tipene said.<\/p>\n

His roles included serving as one of two council appointees to the then-new Te Oneroa-a-T\u014dhe beach board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tipene said Knight was remembered as a public-minded and down-to-earth person, who cared deeply about his local community.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonty was a genuinely nice human being who served his people with passion and commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knight was also not afraid to back himself, as evidenced by his successful move into winemaking at Okahu Estate in the 1980s, something sceptics had thought would be impossible.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of Northland Regional Council and its ratepayers, I\u2019d like to acknowledge Monty for his exemplary service to the people,\u201d Tipene said.<\/p>\n

Denise Piper is a news reporter<\/a> for the Northern Advocate, focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family were planning a private farewell but invited the community to a public memorial at Kait\u0101ia\u2019s Te…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7818,682,6255,1259,8916,31993,18839,13635,19872,94400,43768,111,43,139,529,11225,69,3109,55401,10809,61],"class_list":["post-146649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-allegedly","tag-being","tag-businessman","tag-community","tag-homicide","tag-invited","tag-kaitia","tag-knight","tag-memorial","tag-monty","tag-murdered","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-northlanders","tag-nz","tag-public","tag-remember","tag-sunday","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}