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Dutch sportspeople

All Black rugby forward Kees Meeuws is the son of a Dutch father who emigrated to New Zealand after the Second World War. His mother is Māori, of the Ngāti Maru tribe. A former student of Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, his interests outside rugby range from sculpture and sketching to pig hunting and deer farming.

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Redmer Yska. 'Dutch', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/dutch/4/2/1