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A Brief look at our past about our Flag.

Did you know this was New Zealand’s first official flag back on March 20^th 1834, known as the flag of United Tribes. It remained the official flag until 1840 when it was replaced by the British flag, the union Jack.

In 1902, this flag became New Zealand’s National flag. There are conflicts over whether this flag should be replaced with something that better describes who we are and also separates us more on a defined level from Australia.

Another flag that has been around for many years is the flag of Maori Independence movement, Tino Rangatiratanga. This flag was designed in 1990 by Hiraina Marsden, Jan Smith and Linda Munn. Teno Rangatiratanga means = Maori Independence

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100 Years Ago — and the Maori Long March begins

Māori politics was dominated by the influential MPs (and sometime Cabinet ministers) Māui Pōmare ( Waitara statue photo above) and Apirana Ngata.

The 1920's also saw the rise of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana’s religious movement, and the emergence of Te Puea Hērangi in Waikato.

Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.

He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).

The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.

Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.

Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.