The New Zealand government has pledged an initial $50,000 to help rescue and relief operations in cyclone-battered Tonga.
New Zealand responded to Cyclone Winston two years ago with one of the country's largest peacetime military deployments to the Pacific.
It sent close to 500 personnel, and two ships and six aircraft were involved in delivering hundreds of tonnes of aid at a cost of more than $15 million.
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