5 Sep 2024

New Maori Queen due to give first speech

From Checkpoint, 5:06 pm on 5 September 2024

Just hours after being named the new Maori Queen - Nga wai hono i te po - is due to give her first speech this evening as the head of the Kingitanga. Her raising up ceremony this morning started off a day that promised to be significant and poignant, with thousands of mourners lining the banks of the Waikato river to pay their final respects to her father Kiingi Tuuheitia, Maori news journalist Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira spoke to Lisa Owen.