This carved wooden memorial was erected at Te Koura marae, between Taumarunui and Ōngarue, in memory of those who died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. The Māori death rate was more than eight times that for Pākehā.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)
Reference:
APG-0786-1/2-G
Photograph by Albert Percy Godber
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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