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1833, James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands
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22 April
1936
Rātana and Labour seal alliance
The alliance between the Rātana Church and the Labour Party was cemented at an historic meeting between Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana and Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage.
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