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(New Zealand) A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander. quotations examples
Henry asked if missionaries were now active on the Chathams at which Mr Evans & Mr D’Arnoq exchanged looks, & the former informed us, ‘Nay, the Maori don’t take kindly to us Pakeha spoiling their Moriori with too much civilization.’
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton