Police have named the 17-year-old killed in a landslide in the Bay of Plenty beach settlement of Ohope on Saturday.
He was Hughie George Biddle.
He died when his West End home was engulfed by a landslide after torrential rain in the Whakatane region on Saturday.
An elderly man managed to get out of the house in time.
More should be done to reduce landslips
A former resident of Ohope in Bay of Plenty wants more done to prevent landslips on West End Road.
Some properties were evacuated, and the police warned that a large pohutukawa tree was on the verge of falling onto houses below.
Graheme Whyte says he moved out of his West End Road home in May last year after a massive slip - containing a pohutukawa - badly damaged the house.
The Whakatane District Council has done a lot of work on stormwater systems above the road, he says, but he'd like something done about the trees.
Mr Whyte says that after heavy rain, large pohutukawa can pull down whole sections of the hill. Trimming them back could reduce that risk.
"I'm quite sure," he says, "that if some weight was taken off those trees, that would be the first stage of a remedy for all those properties."
Major work done in 2004
The local Civil Defence controller, Diane Turner, says the potential for slips in that area is well known, and the council did major work there after flooding in 2004.
"The work that had been done in relation to stormwater and sewage reticulation has certainly reduced the likelihood of landslips," Ms Turner says, "but you can never totally mitigate the potential for that risk."
She says it has been an incredibly wet start to the year for the district, with about as much rain in the past five months as they'd normally get in a year.
Mr Whyte says he and his wife plan to return to West End Road once strengthening work has been carried out on the land behind his house.
