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Kōrero: East Coast region

Ngoi Pēwhairangi and Tuini Ngāwai

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Ngoi Pēwhairangi and Tuini Ngāwai

Two great songwriters and singers from the East Coast, Tuini Ngāwai and her niece Ngoi Pēwhairangi, perform at the presentation of the Victoria Cross won by the late Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu to his parents at Ruatōria in October 1943.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: A.004891

by William Hall Raine

Permission of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Monty Soutar, East Coast region – Arts, culture and heritage, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33721/ngoi-pewhairangi-and-tuini-ngawai (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Monty Soutar, i tāngia i te 23 August 2011, updated 1 March 2015.