Celebrating our first Matariki holiday

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Celebrating our first Matariki holiday

Ruth
Nicola
Brown
Matariki Ngāti Whātua Orākei
At Takaparawhau, Ngāti Whātua Orākei land, in the early morning on 21 June in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland at the beginning of the Matariki celebrations [Image: NZD]

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The country's first public holiday for Matariki has passed and up and down the country, Kiwis got out to embrace the occasion in all kinds of ways. , umu Ngāti Whātua Orākei Matariki, Kumara, chicken, eel and fish were baked in the umu [Image: NZD]