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Kōrero: The New Zealanders

Musings in Maori-land

Musings in Maori-land

Māori were a unique, distinguishing element of New Zealand life. For a time around the 1900s Australians called New Zealand ‘Maoriland’ and a few New Zealanders also used the name. The poet Thomas Bracken collected his verse under the title Musings in Maori-land, with images which were appropriately nationalistic.

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – Maorilanders, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/1930/musings-in-maori-land (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.

Comments

Alanah Baker
26 May 2020
New Zealand was called "Maoriland" in England as well. There are many references to this in turn of the century publications.