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9 figures
Te Puea Hērangi
Māori leader
Kate Sheppard
Suffragist
Hōne Heke
Māori chief
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist and chemist
Kiri Te Kanawa
Opera singer
Peter Fraser
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Michael Joseph Savage
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Āpirana Ngata
Statesman and Māori leader
Whina Cooper
Māori rights leader
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