Biography: Kawharu, Ian Hugh

Freda and Hugh, 1989

Hugh and Freda Kawharu are seated in front of a window surrounded by ornately carved wooden panels.

Hugh Kawharu (right) with his second wife Freda Violet Rankin, outside the new Tāne-nui-ā-rangi wharenui (meeting house) at the University of Auckland.

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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/47825/freda-and-hugh-1989 (accessed 4 June 2026).