600th Anniversary Tentative plans were discussed last week by representatives of the Maori tribes at Turangawaewae Pa, Ngaruawahia (Auckland), for celebrating the anniversary of the landing of the first Maoris in New Zealand from Hawaiki, which occurred about 600 years ago. The project provides for a big gathering of Maoris at Ngaruawahia in about a year’s time, probably early December, by which time a large meeting house at the pa will be erected as a , memorial to the Maori Battalion in the Second World War. Most of the Maoris at the conferences this week were chiefs and sub-chiefs who claim descent from the occupants of the first ; canoes to reach land.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25954, 7 November 1949, Page 6
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