More Info →Group of Maori men cooking (Otaki Churches gathering)

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Description: Penciled on back – 46. Horowhenua Co.(or County?), Otaki Churches, Maori. Commissaries for the gathering was run on Army lines with Maori Battalion cooks and a quartermasters store which stocked everything except pepper, at the time unobtainable. Cooks superintending boiling meat and vegetables over an open fire.

Unidentified group of Maori men cooking at Raukawa Marae during the celebrations for Rangiatea Church in 1950

1 B&W photo print copy

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”