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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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Arrest of Rua Kenana

1916 Arrest of Rua Kenana

On the morning of Sunday 2 April 1916, 57 armed police invaded the remote Tuhoe settlement of Maungapohatu in the Urewera Ranges. They had come to arrest the prophet Rua Kenana. more...

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Rua KenanaTreaty events 1900-49 - Treaty timelineMaori objection - conscientious objection in the First World War

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  • Rua Kenana biography (DNZB)
  • Ngai Tuhoe (Te Ara)
  • Bay of Plenty places: inland Urewera (Te Ara)
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