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Bay News: Waitangi Day 2021 - festival schedule, events, Eru and the waka 3 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM 8 minutes to read Ngātokimatawhaorua - the large canoe that was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Photo / Te Rawhitiroa Bosch Northern Advocate Eru and the Waka If you'd been standing on a beach in 1940 at the launch of the largest canoe in the world, you would have seen 12-year-old Eru Patuone Heperi. He was the youngest paddler on board and his father was one of the carvers who helped create the significant waka. Eru Patuone Heperi comes...