Five beaches on the market

Izaiah Hetutu-Bahm may just be 6 years old but it seems nobody told him that.

Flanked by two adult performers at the Wellington Pasifika Festival at Odlins Plaza by the waterfront on Saturday, Izaiah was one of the show’s undisputed stars.

‘‘They like to perform, they love the culture. They have never been shy about it,’’ his mum Lucy Hetutu said of her children.

A couple of thousand people braved stiff Wellington winds to check out the festival on Saturday afternoon.

Every Pacific Island nation was represented with the exception of Hawaii, which could not make it along, event organiser Suzanne Tamaki said.

It was a celebration of Pacific culture, food, performance and ‘‘sharing all their awesomeness’’, she said.

It was the first time in the annual festival that the Pacific rainbow – or LGBTQIA-plus (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual-plus) – community had taken an official role. Their participation involved an attempt to make the world’s biggest rainbow lei. Five white-sand beaches are on the market for a buyer with deep pockets.

Tupou, a 1439-hectare farming property in Northland, is up for sale. It boasts 13km of pristine coastline and is the country’s third largest privately-owned coastal farm, located on the East Coast north of Whangarei.

In total, 20 per cent of Northland’s 3483km stretch of coastline remains in private freehold ownership.

Real estate agent Michael Pleciak, of Legacy Partners, said Tupou was a spectacular and unspoilt paradise with absolute privacy. ‘‘The scale of Tupou Farm in terms of its land area and coastal frontage is compelling – it is a rare and significant farm asset.’’

The property was originally covered in shrub when the Josephson brothers bought it in the early 1960s. After an extensive development programme, it became a sheep and beef farm.

It is now owned by the families of the late Ray, Noel and Peter Josephson, who were the main holders of the clothing business Kean’s Jeans.

The property had a 2016 capital value of nearly $17 million. It is roamed by 4000 breeding ewes and 250 breeding cows, all looked after by a fulltime resident farm manager and shepherd.

Family spokesman Rob Josephson said Tupou was being sold as the owners had other plans.