Story: Urban Māori
Social occasions organised by groups such as the Ngāti Pōneke Māori Association provided a welcome for Māori new to the city, and brought Māori and Pākehā into contact. Dances were often lavish, formal affairs, as this invitation of 1950 suggests.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1950-03
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