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We were blubbing like babies : How New Zealand got its national anthem by accident
6 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
5 minutes to read
By: Max Cryer
Many people know the story of how God Defend New Zealand came to be written, but fewer know that it became our national anthem by accident. Max Cryer tells the story.
Irish-born Thomas Bracken gathered experience in New Zealand as a writer, poet, and also as an editor. In the late 1800s he was editing the Dunedin-published
Saturday Advertiser news-magazine into which he often put pieces of his own writing - sometimes disguised with a fictitious name.
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