31 Mar 2023

Taranaki peaks gain legal personhood - Te Kāhui Tupua

From Checkpoint, 5:56 pm on 31 March 2023

Hundreds of people gathered at Aotearoa Pa in South Taranaki today to witness the initialling of Te Ruruku Pūtakerongo - the Treaty of Waitangi settlement for Taranaki Maunga. he deal consigns the name Egmont to the history books in favour of Taranaki Maunga and the national park's peaks, regarded as tūpuna by Māori, will jointly become a legal person named Te Kāhui Tupua.

Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has been at Aotearoa Pa.

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