Posted July 31, 2020
Emergency Services
Police can now release the name of the man who died after a vehicle entered Ruahini Canal on 22 July.
He was John Riki Paul, aged 66, from Tauranga.
Emergency services responded to a report of a vehicle in the Ruahini Canal near McLaren Falls Road, Omanawa at 1:20 pm on July 22.
Mr Paul’s body was recovered when the water level of the canal was lowered.
Enquiries into the circumstances are ongoing.