What a way to end a school term and start Easter celebrations!
Close to 500 children and parents flocked to Ngāti Kahungunu’s Easter egg hunt on Thursday, April 6 at the Domain playground in Dannevirke.
The iwi was keen to re-establish their Easter egg hunt, which was very popular in 2021 but was cancelled due to Covid in 2022.
The first Ngāti Kahungunu hunt was on Easter Sunday in 2021 at the Dannevirke Domain, and followed the iwi making house-to-house Easter egg deliveries in 2020 during the height of the Covid lockdown.
It gained a very good response, but organisers decided waiting until Sunday was a bit unfair on the children, some of whom might not get any other Easter treats due to tough financial times, so the end of the school term was deemed a better time - and so it proved.