Rua Kēnana Hepetipa meeting with Joseph George Ward on the beach at Whakatāne, March 1908
Whai muriRua Kēnana Hepetipa's meeting with Joseph George Ward was later described as the 'Ceremony of Union': Rua accepted Ward's argument that there could be no separate Māori government but concluded that there would be the same laws for Māori and Pākehā.
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