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Welcoming the Māori Battalion

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Welcoming the Māori Battalion

The Ngāti Pōneke club was joined by other tribes in a formal welcome at Wellington for the returning men of the Māori Battalion in 1946. Here women perform a waiataā-ringa (action song) during the ceremony.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001650; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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Paul Meredith, Urban Māori – Urban networks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3581/welcoming-the-maori-battalion (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Meredith, published 4 March 2009, updated 17 February 2015.