Story: Urban Māori

Auckland Māori Community Centre

Young people dance the twist at an Auckland Māori Community Centre social in the 1960s. The centre was one of the first purpose-built venues in Auckland for urban Māori to gather, both for social occasions and for more formal events such as hui (meetings) and tangi (funerals).

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Paul Meredith, Urban Māori – Urban marae, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3586/auckland-maori-community-centre (accessed 4 June 2026).

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

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joyce
29 December 2014

do you know that the auckland maori community centre has over $2000 of unclaimed money with IRD nz