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Kōrero: Pacific Island health

Exercising for health

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Exercising for health

Highlander rugby player Seilala Mapusua and nine-year-old Sunia Makasini reach for the ball as seven-year-old Matatia Lale looks on, during a netball game at Dunedin’s Edgar Centre in 2006. The match was part of the Otago Pacific Peoples Health Trust’s programme to reduce childhood obesity through healthier eating and regular exercise.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 20 April 2006, p. 22

by Peter McIntosh

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Colin Tukuitonga, Pacific Island health – Risk factors and health service delivery, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27764/exercising-for-health (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Colin Tukuitonga, i tāngia i te 17 February 2011, updated 9 January 2019.