BARBARA EDMONDS: —I'm just saying!—and then it hailed as we drove to Newtown. We didn't even try to make it over the Wainui Hill, much to my Auntie Freda's disappointment. We took it as a sign that Titahi Bay, Porirua, Mana was the place we would call home for our family. And what a home it is. Mana is an extremely diverse electorate, both in geography and people, a coastline that leads to Kāpiti Island in the north and Mana Island in the south, with rolling hills surrounding Paraparaumu, Paekākāriki, Pukerua Bay, Waitangirua, Cannons Creek, Plimmerton, and Judgeford. 