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FUNERAL OF SIR PETER BUCK / TE RANGI HIROA

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Te Rangi Hiroa (Dr Peter Buck) died in hospital in Hawaii, 1st December 1951 and was cremated. There was a delay of over a year before the Minister of Native Affairs, the Hon. E.B. Corbett, finally brought his ashes home to New Zealand. “The funeral journey from Wellington produced a remarkable outpouring of affection and respect, the greatest and most prolonged, in the beautiful, early-miss...
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1953
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New Zealand/Aotearoa
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MovingImage
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Production Company: Pacific Films
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