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Kōrero: Bay of Plenty places

Travelling group, Te Whāiti

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Travelling group, Te Whāiti

In the summer of 1907 the New Zealand short-story writer Katherine Mansfield travelled through the Urewera country with this group of English tourists. She is standing second from left, with local people at Te Whāiti. Her experiences, which she recorded in a journal, prompted one of her best-known stories, ‘The woman at the store’.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-002584; F

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Malcolm McKinnon, Bay of Plenty places – Whirinaki area, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5743/travelling-group-te-whaiti (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.