Three ambulances were sent to Papamoa Beach just after 12.30am.

Paramedics treated three people and took two of them to Tauranga Hospital.

St John is referring media to police for more details.

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26 Dec: A search continues for a person who went missing after a jet ski incident near Port Waikato on Christmas

25 Dec: A person's been airlifted to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, after a quad bike rolled over around 2.30pm at Northland's Pouto Point

25 Dec: A Coromandel holidaymaker is still in shock after a shark attacked his kayak 'completely out of the blue.'

25 Dec: A light aircraft has crashed into an unoccupied house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: The Civil Aviation Authority's investigating after a light aircraft crashed into a house on the Coromandel Peninsula

25 Dec: Two people have been badly injured after a car crashed into a tree in Tolaga Bay, north of Gisborne, early this morning

24 Dec: State Highway One through Northland's Waipu is blocked following a crash - leaving 5 people injured, one seriously

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