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Visiting American servicemen and Tainui Maori watch the annual regatta and each other at Ngaruawahia on 27 March 1943. Here we see a canoe race which includes a hurdle.
Alexander Turnbull Library,
War History Collection
Reference: F 351 1/4
Photographer: John Pascoe
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