The Prime Minister will attend a special memorial service in Auckland today, for those who lost their lives in the recent tsunami in the Pacific.

John Key says families of the New Zealand victims and the wider Pacific community are all invited to take part.

He says it is fitting to remember the New Zealanders, Samoans and Tongans who died, by way of a national memorial service

It is being held at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Parnell at four o'clock.