New Zealand Post is pulling out the stops to celebrate Matariki (the Maori New Year) – with a special stamp and coin issue and some major public events in Auckland and Wellington. Matariki celebrates the return to the skies of the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades – with Matariki being the Maori name for the brightest star in that group. Matariki is widely acknowledged to signal a change of …
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