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The Arms are supported by a Settler, representing the importance of the farming industry to Rotorua and by a Maori holding a weapon called a Taiaha and wearing a Korowai or Maori Cloak and Chieftain's feathers. | The Arms are supported by a Settler, representing the importance of the farming industry to Rotorua and by a Maori holding a weapon called a Taiaha and wearing a Korowai or Maori Cloak and Chieftain's feathers. | ||
The motto means "We together" or "we are one" signifying the harmony between Pakeha and Maori and was used during an official welcome by the Maori people to the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor) on his visit to Rotorua in 1920. The motto | The motto means "We together" or "we are one" signifying the harmony between Pakeha and Maori and was used during an official welcome by the Maori people to the Prince of Wales (later Duke of Windsor) on his visit to Rotorua in 1920. The motto Tātau Tātau was recommended to the Council by a former deputy mayor of Rotorua, Mr Pakeke Leonard, who was appointed to a subcommittee set up to consider a coat of arms for the city. At the time of the grant of arms in 1963 the City of Rotorua's coat of arms was thought to | ||
be the only New Zealand city with a Maori motto rather than a Latin one. | be the only New Zealand city with a Maori motto rather than a Latin one. | ||