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Story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement

Bishop of Aotearoa with Māori butchers

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Bishop of Aotearoa with Māori butchers

The Bishop of Aotearoa (the Right Reverend Manu Bennett) stands with a group of Māori butchers in the export boning room of the Gear Meat Company, Petone, in 1970. The freezing-works industry is one of the areas where Māori became concentrated when moving into urban areas.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1970/4183/9

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Cybèle Locke, Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement – Māori and industrial unions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22942/bishop-of-aotearoa-with-maori-butchers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Cybèle Locke, published 4 March 2010.