Waikato-Tainui executive Glenda Taituha-Toka, originally from Piopio is a finalist in the Young Executive of the Year category of the Deloitte Top 200 Awards. The winners will be announced on December 5. The Rahui-Pōkeka (Huntly)…
Farming families are being called on to help connect Filipina women with an online new English language programme. Founder Lyzanne du Plessis said she owes her life to speaking English well and easily making friends…
5 September 11am Kiingi Tuheitia’s youngest child and only daughter was announced as the new monarch of the Kiingitanga on Thursday morning. Te Puhi Ariki Ngawai Hono i te Pō Paki is the eighth Māori…
Waitomo Caves choir will host its first open day for this year at the end of the month at the Ōtorohanga Baptist church. And it is hoping to make up the needed balance of voices,…
A new movie in te reo Māori about the battle of O-Rākau will be the first in New Zealand cinema history to share the history from a Māori perspective. It will be released during Matariki…
They have been around for millions of years, often don’t live long enough to celebrate a second birthday – and without human help they will die out. So the opening of a new wing at…
More than 1000 people gathered to honour the 160th anniversary of O-Rākau, a battle that helped define the New Zealand wars. The ceremony on Tuesday began with a 7am dawn service, flag raising and karakia,…
The contribution of Ōtorohanga college students to the teaching of Māori history was acknowledged at this week’s commemorations at O-Rakau, A significant petition, driven by the Waitomo rangatahi a decade ago, was returned as taonga…
Women famously fought alongside men at O-Rākau. Many, if not most of the whānau at Tuesday’s commemorations were remembering lost tūpuna wāhine as well as tāne. Among them were cousins Aroha and Mikaela Tapsell, who…
Historian Tom Roa says when the government say it feels Māori pain over O-Rakau, it is simply paying lip service. The Waikato University professor delivered his rebuke when speaking on Tuesday at the 160th anniversary…
