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Story: Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari

Preparing the Māori Battalion hākari

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A large hākari (feast) was organised for the 28th (Māori) Battalion on their return to New Zealand after the end of the Second World War. Inevitably a huge hāngī was prepared for the men.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Weekly Review 232. National Film Unit, 1946

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Basil Keane, Māori feasts and ceremonial eating – hākari – 20th- and 21st-century changes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/40559/preparing-the-maori-battalion-hakari (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 5 February 2013.