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Pareārau Group, chartered accountants

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Pareārau Group, chartered accountants

Māori are gaining professional qualifications at a much faster rate than Pākehā New Zealanders. When these Māori women set up their own accountancy business in Wellington in 1996, it was the first chartered accountancy firm owned by Māori. Today the Pareārau Group provides a wide range of business services to Māori organisations.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1996/1988/22

by Craig Simcox

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Paul Callister and Robert Didham, Occupational structure – Ethnicity, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22563/parearau-group-chartered-accountants (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Callister and Robert Didham, published 14 April 2010.