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Aug 2024
12m 39s

Nau Mai Town

RNZ
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This week on Nau Mai Town, RNZ's podcast about Aotearoa place names, Justine Murray is in Taumarunui to find out what the name means. There's one version she's heard of and it's about a dying chief who needed shelter from the sun, but that's not the story according to one of the local hapu  
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