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Ken Bowen, Australian New Zealander

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Ken Bowen, Australian New Zealander

Ken Bowen, an Australian by birth, arrived in New Zealand in 1964 on a sightseeing trip. He stayed on and married, and by 2004 he had 20 Kiwi grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He is shown here in 2000, when he became a New Zealand citizen. He confessed that when the All Blacks played the Wallabies at rugby, he had ‘a bet each way’.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 9 September 2000

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Ann Beaglehole, Immigration regulation – 1946–1985: gradual change, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1379/ken-bowen-australian-new-zealander (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ann Beaglehole, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.