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New Zealand's first Māori high commissioner, Charles Moihi Bennett, took up his duties in the Federation of Malaya (later Malaysia) in 1959. This 1960 newsreel shows him visiting New Zealand troops on jungle patrol shortly before the end of the Malayan Emergency.
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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference: Pictorial Parade 101. National Film Unit, 1960
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