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Biography: Kawharu, Ian Hugh

Bernard Fergusson and Hugh Kawharu

Three men look at a sheet of paper one of them is holding up. Fergusson, in the centre, wears a monocle, flanked by two Māori men in suits. The man on the left is unidentified.

Sir Bernard Fergusson (centre) took a special interest in Māori during his term as governor-general (1962–7), and formed a warm friendship with Hugh Kawharu (right). Fergusson later wrote a foreword to Kawharu’s book, Ōrākei: a Ngāti Whātua community (1975).

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Margaret Kawharu. 'Kawharu, Ian Hugh', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47824/bernard-fergusson-and-hugh-kawharu (accessed 4 June 2026).