Story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement

Meat workers' sports trophy

Meat workers' sports trophy

Rangi Paenga (centre), a past president of the New Zealand Meat Workers' Union, is presented with a carved trophy commemorating his son, who died in Vietnam. This memorial trophy, carved in the late 1960s, was awarded to the team that won the meat workers' sports competition.

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Cybèle Locke, 'Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement - Māori and industrial unions', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/22947/meat-workers-sports-trophy (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Cybèle Locke, published 11 Mar 2010