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The 2023 Mana Kuratahi National Primary Kapa Haka competition is just weeks away, and fundraising has moved into overdrive for four Rotorua-based schools which have qualified and will make the trip to Nelson in October.
The groups - Te Koutu, Ruamata, Rotorua Intermediate and Te Wharekura o Ngāti Rongomai - finished in the top four at last year’s Te Arawa primary regional competition.
Monday, October 30 marks the beginning of the biannual contest.
More than half of the 41 groups come from the Bay of Plenty region, the coasts, or the Hamilton and Auckland rohe.