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Malaga Stage Production 2001
Our part in this was to play ourselves “The out for special functions such as Te-Ata-I-Rangi-
Maori, Tangata Whenua” and we were to powhiri Kaahu’s Coronation. But this performance was to
our Pacific Island whanau to New Zealand. Bear in be a symbolic gesture of a holistic welcome to our
mind that this has never been done officially to whanau from the islands.
encompass all the islands. It has only been carried The Kapa Haka group members were very
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