{"id":41420,"date":"2025-09-24T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41420\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:32:09","slug":"traffic-delays-expected-on-sh1-and-sh41-during-sir-tumu-te-heuheu-tangihanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41420\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic delays expected on SH1 and SH41 during Sir Tumu Te Heuheu tangihanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Sir Tumu chaired the M\u0101ori Heritage Council, held multiple leadership roles and was an important figure in environmental and heritage protection nationally and internationally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">He was respected across iwi and government circles, particularly for his dedication to kaitiakitanga, and his contributions were recognised in 2005 when he was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">In 2009, he was redesignated as Sir under the Knight Companion rank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Sir Tumu\u2019s last public appearance was at Te Arikinui Ngawai hono i te po\u2019s first Koroneihana this year, where he was acknowledged for his decades of service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NzpREUNDumYW\" style=\"display:none\">Prime Minister Christopher Luxon paid tribute to Sir Tumu, describing him as \u201ca fierce and humble leader for his people, their land and their waters\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Tumu chaired the M\u0101ori Heritage Council, held multiple leadership roles and was an important figure in environmental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,37234,5432,3937,16492,2837,5346,37235,37232,34537,26755,111,43,139,32141,69,90,421,37229,37230,8485,13672,37231,1852,8690,131,1865,3946,37233,34536,34534,4519],"class_list":["post-41420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-ariki","tag-between","tag-chief","tag-delays","tag-during","tag-expected","tag-farewelled","tag-heavier","tag-heuheu","tag-highway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-ngti","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-paramount","tag-sh1","tag-sh41","tag-sir","tag-state","tag-tangihanga","tag-taup","tag-te","tag-than","tag-today","tag-traffic","tag-trangi","tag-tumu","tag-twharetoa","tag-usual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41420","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=41420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}