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Story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change

Māori butchers

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Māori butchers

Most urbanised Māori found unskilled and semi-skilled work in the burgeoning manufacturing and other city-based industries. Here the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Right Reverend Manu Bennett (second from left), stands with a group of Māori butchers in the Gear Meat Company freezing works, Petone, in 1970.  

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Reference: EP/1970/4183/9

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Ian Pool rāua ko Tahu Kukutai, Taupori Māori – Māori population change – Post-war changes, 1945–1970, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31328/maori-butchers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian Pool rāua ko Tahu Kukutai, published 10 May 2011.