Gisborne

The 25-year-old was born in Gisborne on New Zealand's North Island but is eligible for Scotland through a grandfather from Glasgow.

Bad weather returns to devastated regions including Hawke's Bay and Gisborne as police try and locate roughly 1,100 people still listed as uncontactable.

North of Hawke's Bay, at Tairāwhiti Gisborne, the area's Civil Defence group controller Ben Green said there was "still a long way to go before everyone has been located, had their needs met and everyone's connected once again".

The Gisborne Herald, a local newspaper with a circulation of about 10,000, said on Twitter that its editorial staff had been “without any communications” until early Wednesday afternoon, before satellite internet became available and they were able to put an edition together.

Some 22,000 issues were hand-delivered to residents so they would be informed about dwindling water supplies, Gisborne’s mayor, Rehette Stoltz, told Radio New Zealand.