This National Film Unit Weekly Review film shows the extensive preparations made to welcome home the 28th Māori Battalion on their return to Wellington in January 1946. Porirua Māori are seen preparing shellfish and other food and cooking a huge hangi to cater for a hākari (feast) in the wharf sheds at Aotea Quay the next day. After the Dominion Monarch pulls alongisde Pipitea Wharf on the 23rd, the 780 men of the Battalion file down the gangway to prepare for the welcome ceremonies (clip 1 of 3).

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WEEKLY REVIEW No. 232, Archives NZ - See reference on their film wiki website

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At length 2:07/3:02 of this

At length 2:07/3:02 of this film reel is my kui Hopaea (Sophie) Te Hana (nee Tahiwi) on the right hand side wearing a headscarf and glasses. She was one of the kaikaranga welcoming the 28th Maori Battalion home to Wellington from WWII. Her two brothers Henare Tahiwi and Pirimi Tahiwi were members of the Pioneer Maori Battalion in WWI. Her own son Cpl Remana Kiriwai Te Hana 802232, was a member of the Maori Battalion 2NZEF. He died in April 1945 and is buried in Forli, Italy.

Māori Battalion returns part 1

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