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Māori meeting house, Waitangi

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Māori meeting house, Waitangi

This meeting house at Waitangi was built in the 1880s and survived until 1927.

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Canterbury Museum, E. J. Moffat Collection

Reference: 1960.41.6

Permission of Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Rhys Richards, Chatham Islands – From the 1860s to the 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37798/maori-meeting-house-waitangi (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Rhys Richards, published 28 November 2012, updated 1 May 2015.