With Piri Poutapu, Pita Heperi supervised the building of the waka Ngatokimatawhaorua at Kerikeri during the 1930s. This 100 foot canoe was used during the New Zealand Centenial celebrations at Waitangi. From 1949 to 1968 Pita Heperi was the Maori assistant custodian at Waitangi House (see Evening Post; 14 May, 1968, p.19)
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Heperi, Pita, active 1930s-1960s
Heperi, Peter, active 1930s-1960s, Heperi, Te Hoe Pita, active 1930s-1960s
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Leslie Verry's trip to Europe
Date: 1939-1940
From: Koppel, Irene, 1914-2004 :Photographic prints, albums and negatives taken by Irene Koppel
By: Verry, Horace Leslie, 1916-1996
Reference: PA1-o-988
Description: The images record three separate events: 1. Leslie Verry's trip to Europe in 1939 as the world prepared for war. 2. The New Zealand Centennial celebrations at Waitangi in 1940. 3. A climbing trip to Tongariro National Park, easter, 1940. In relation to the Second World War, this album is interesting in that it has several photographs showing mobilisation in Holland, and troops on the move in Utrecht and the Hague following the Italian invasion of Albania in April 1939. It also has photographs taken in Kassa (Hungary) after the partition of Czechoslovakia. While in Britain and Europe Leslie Verry also practiced as a freelance journalist Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).