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Kiwi as symbol: promoting Eketāhuna

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Kiwi as symbol: promoting Eketāhuna

In the early 2000s the small Wairarapa town of Eketāhuna promoted itself as 'kiwi country', with a special 'kiwi tour'.

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Jock Phillips, Kiwi – A kiwi country: 1930s–2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11234/kiwi-as-symbol-promoting-eketahuna (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.