Tapu disrupts seminar
PA Auckland A Maori tapu on Auckland University’s School of Engineering has disrupted plans for a multi-cultural seminar at the university next week. According to the chairman of the Auckland District Maori Council (Dr Rangi Walker) the tapu was placed on the school after the haka-party incident at the school earlier in the year. During the incident engineering students practising a capping-week haka were attacked by a group of Maoris who considered the haka an affront to their culture.
Some of the students were injured in the attack. Dr Walker said that once blood was shed, in Maori terms, a tapu was automatically placed over the area. It would remain in force until it was lifted. Dr Walker had no idea when the tapu would be lifted nor did he know if the tapu was affecting the studies of any Maori students. Signs are hurriedly being printed to redirect people from the Engineering School to the university library, the new location for the seminar.
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Press, 11 August 1979, Page 6
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