6 Feb 2023

Te Rau Aroha museum

From Waitangi Day 2024, 11:35 am on 6 February 2023

Te Rau Aroha was a much loved canteen truck, riddled with bullet holes, that crossed the battlefields of North Africa and Italy in World War Two alongside the 28th Maori Battalion. It's also the name of a museum here at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds which honours those Maori who fought in Aotearoa and overseas. The curator of Te Rau Aroha, Chanel Clarke.

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