{"id":250326,"date":"2026-01-25T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:33:13","slug":"morrinsville-school-literacy-tutor-lisa-maclennan-among-those-lost-in-mt-maunganui-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250326\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrinsville school literacy tutor Lisa Maclennan among those lost in Mt Maunganui slip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOur love and aroha go out to Lisa\u2019s family; we ask that you respect their privacy at this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MorrinsvilleMorrinsville woman Lisa Maclennan, 50, is among those unaccounted for at Mt Maunganui.<\/p>\n

Dozens from the school community shared their heartbreak and prayers for Maclennan and her family.<\/p>\n

\u201cLisa touched the hearts of many,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch a special woman, who has contributed to so many young people in our community,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cLisa you were an amazing woman who gave everything to those kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bay of Plenty District Commander Superintendent Tim Anderson said in a statement about the missing today that it was \u201cnow apparent that we will not be able to bring them home alive\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is heartbreaking news for the families and the dozens of people who have been working day and night, hoping for a positive outcome,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe informed the families of this news this morning and we\u2019re continuing to provide them with wrap around support. They are going through something very few people could understand, and we ask that they be given space to grieve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The names of the other five people missing<\/a> in the landslide have been released, they are:<\/p>\n

M\u00e5ns Loke Bernhardsson, 20, from SwedenJacqualine Suzanne Wheeler, 71, from RotoruaSusan Doreen Knowles, 71, from NgongotahaSharon Maccanico<\/a>, 15, from AucklandMax Furse-Kee<\/a>, 15, from Auckland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur love and aroha go out to Lisa\u2019s family; we ask that you respect their privacy at this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3471,682,29194,45787,78,56662,12001,11228,5836,145538,5829,17707,6501,31045,13233,10048,10136,111,43,139,69,4056,15120,4062,64572,7563,72903,84401,46225],"class_list":["post-250326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-among","tag-being","tag-educator","tag-hearts","tag-in","tag-landslide","tag-lisa","tag-literacy","tag-lost","tag-maclennan","tag-many","tag-maunganui","tag-missing","tag-morrinsville","tag-mount","tag-mt","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-remembered","tag-school","tag-slip","tag-those","tag-thursdays","tag-touched","tag-tutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250326","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=250326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}