{"id":61390,"date":"2025-10-06T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:03:08","slug":"new-zealand-government-make-multi-million-dollar-payment-to-samoa-for-sinking-of-hmnzs-manawanui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/61390\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Government Make Multi million Dollar Payment to Samoa for Sinking of HMNZS Manawanui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759708988_772_w=1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70748\"  \/>RNZN Naval Divers on the scene above HMNZS Manawanui, off the Southern Coast Of Upolu. Photo: NZ Defence Force<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Government has made a payment to the Government of Samoa of Samoan Tala (SAT) 10 million (approximately NZD 6 million) following the grounding and sinking of HMNZS Manawanui in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Today marks a year since the HMNZS Manawanui sank off the Safata District coastline on the south side of Upolu, Samoa. All 75 passengers and crew survived.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Winston Peters says the payment follows a request from the Government of Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have responded to the Government of Samoa\u2019s request in full and with good faith. We have always said we will do the right thing,\u201d Mr Peters says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise the impact the sinking has had on local communities and acknowledge the disruption it caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Peters says New Zealand continues to work with Samoa on decisions around the ship and its future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with the Government of Samoa, our focus continues to be on minimising any possible environmental impacts and supporting the response. These are our absolute priorities,\u201d Mr Peters says.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive Court of Inquiry into the causes of the incident has been concluded and considerable work to implement the recommendations is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Any disciplinary proceedings that may arise are yet to be determined, but NZDF advises that the investigation is reaching its closing stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZN Naval Divers on the scene above HMNZS Manawanui, off the Southern Coast Of Upolu. Photo: NZ Defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33240,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-61390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-main-slider","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61390","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=61390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}