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Modern marching: the Matua Majors

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Modern marching: the Matua Majors

The Matua Majors, a masters' team consisting of older women, practise their routine at Tauranga in 2005. Marching as a sport was revived following a reorganisation of the administrative structure in 1998, and in the 2000s masters' and beginners' grades developed.

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Charlotte Macdonald, Marching teams and cheerleaders – Marching teams, 1950s onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38067/modern-marching-the-matua-majors (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 17 May 2012.