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Waitai brought common sense approach to policing and parliament 12 May 2021 08:39 AM Photo: Whanganui Online Facebook. A former parliamentary colleague say the late Rana Waitai set a great example for others to follow. Mr Waitai died on Saturday in Whanganui aged 79. He was one of the so-called tight five, the five New Zealand First MPs who swept the Māori seats in the first MMP election in 1996. Fellow tight five-member Tuariki Delamere says before winning Te Puku o Te Whenua Mr Waitai was a police officer for 31 years, ending his career heading the Gisborne district in a way that set the standard for common sense policing and showed he had not forgotten his roots.