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Bringing the Mail Ashore One Hundred Years Ago - (Te Ao Hou - No. 2 Spring 1952)
- Date
- Spring 1952
- By
- Maori Affairs DepartmentMaori Affairs Department
- Publisher
- Te Ao Hou
- Description
Wellington's first mail-carrier was a canoe. It was named ‘Matara’ (distant), probably in reference to the letters which came in immigrant ships from a distant land. Its crew was a small, carefully chosen band of Maoris, who knew their harbour in its many moods, and could be relied upon to get the mail to land safe and dry. This canoe was used by M...
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- Source
- Te Ao Hou - No. 2 (Spring 1952)
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