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STRONG MĀORI INFLUENCE CRITICAL FOR NEW WOMEN'S BASKETBALL LEAGUE, TAUIHI
Having Māori themed names for all five teams was a “no brainer” for the ground-breaking women’s national basketball league.
The revamped competition will achieve a first for top-level New Zealand sport when it tips off on Wednesday with every team adopting a te reo Māori element in their name.
Basketball New Zealand’s new competition has been dubbed Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa with Tauihi meaning “to soar”.....
www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/129020008/strong-mori-influence-critical-for-new-womens-basketball-league-tauihi
POU UNVEILED TO MARK SIGNIFICANCE OF TAKAPŪNEKE NEAR AKAROA
A pou has been unveiled at dawn on the Banks Peninsula this morning to mark a new phase for a historically significant site.
"The opening of the first stage of Takapūneke Reserve and the blessing of Pou Tū te Raki o Te Maiharanui is significant and represents an expression of our relationship to this whenua."
The land is an urupā for Kāi Tarewa and Kāti Irakehu, who lost ancestors in a feud with Ngāti Toa.
It had also been a trading site between Māori and European settlers, and marked the first British intervention of Māori warfare with a massacre in the 1830s......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/469729/pou-unveiled-to-mark-significance-of-takapuneke-near-akaroa
Having Māori themed names for all five teams was a “no brainer” for the ground-breaking women’s national basketball league.
The revamped competition will achieve a first for top-level New Zealand sport when it tips off on Wednesday with every team adopting a te reo Māori element in their name.
Basketball New Zealand’s new competition has been dubbed Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa with Tauihi meaning “to soar”.....
www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/129020008/strong-mori-influence-critical-for-new-womens-basketball-league-tauihi
POU UNVEILED TO MARK SIGNIFICANCE OF TAKAPŪNEKE NEAR AKAROA
A pou has been unveiled at dawn on the Banks Peninsula this morning to mark a new phase for a historically significant site.
"The opening of the first stage of Takapūneke Reserve and the blessing of Pou Tū te Raki o Te Maiharanui is significant and represents an expression of our relationship to this whenua."
The land is an urupā for Kāi Tarewa and Kāti Irakehu, who lost ancestors in a feud with Ngāti Toa.
It had also been a trading site between Māori and European settlers, and marked the first British intervention of Māori warfare with a massacre in the 1830s......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/469729/pou-unveiled-to-mark-significance-of-takapuneke-near-akaroa