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PA - Auckland The Mana Motuhake ' Movement, led by Mr : Matiu Rata, wants to rename New Zealand Ao- ! tearoa.
Mr Rata said that the : Government had talked : about altering the national ■ flag, and he could see no • sense in that unless the
■' change had an ' express I purpose. ; “I.look forward to the I time when we name the
country Aotearoa,” he said. He believed that Aotearoa meant the land of the long white mist. However, Mr David Simmons, ethnologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, said that that meaning was a very poor translation by the historian and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, William Pember Reeves. “Aotearoa means a long dawn,” said Mr Simmons.
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