Two Māori versions of 'God save the Queen' appeared in 1860. This first officially sanctioned version was printed in 1897 on palm-sized cards for the Māori who accompanied Premier Richard Seddon to Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee celebrations in England. The translation was the work of Edward Marsh Williams, son of missionary Henry Williams, who had as a youth helped his father translate the Treaty of Waitangi.
Listen to the first verse of 'E te Atua tohungia te Kuini' ('God save the Queen') being sung at a welcome for Queen Elizabeth II in 1971.
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Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, BIM 1486
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