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Story: Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy

Te Aute old boys

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Te Aute old boys

These Te Aute college old boys are Māui Pōmare (back, left), H. Hawkins, Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck), Hāmiora Hei, Āpirana Ngata and Rēweti Kōhere. Described as 'Thornton boys' after the headmaster of Te Aute during their time there, they represent the earliest wave of tertiary-qualified Māori professionals.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, T. K. Fitzgerald Collection

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Basil Keane, Te Māori i te ohanga – Māori in the economy – Urbanisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25784/te-aute-old-boys (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 12 April 2010.