History of the Wai 262 Claim

Prepared by Oliver Sutherland and the late Murray Parsons in conjunction with Moana Jackson and the whanau of claimants, June 2011

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John Hippolite in hongi/hariru, Commonwealth Ethnobotany Hui, Rehua Marae, Christchurch 1988. This hui was where Del, Saana and John first conceived WAI 262

Douglas yen (left), who collected all the kumara varieties which then in 1963 DSIR sent to Japan and then in 1988, Del went over there and retrieved the pre-European ones.

Saana and her cousin, Tura Jeffries - back in the days when we were just thinking about saving the harakeke and WAI 262. Photographer, Sally Symes.